![]() None of the nine other authors of Hedenstierna-Jonson’s paper, Anna Kjellström, Torun Zachrisson, Maja Krzewińska, Veronica Sobrado, Neil Price, Torsten Günther, Mattias Jakobsson, Anders Götherström, and Jan Storå, has any advanced knowledge of norrœnt (Old Norse), let alone any expertise of the language. With no sign of injury or any type of trauma on the bones, the subject of the study simply couldn’t have reasonably been a warrior, making Hedenstierna-Jonson’s conclusions preposterous. As a matter of fact, even training as a warrior would have resulted in various wounds that would have been visible on the bones.Įven modern day warriors show signs of various trauma and injuries, despite exceptional military advances for body protection over the course of the last millennium, as demonstrated by a medical report for a Nordic special operation forces operator. Indeed, the very aspect of being a warrior inherently involves a combat element, and with combat come injuries, especially considering the fighting methods of the Viking age, including the handling of swords and other medieval weapons. Of particular interest is also Hedenstierna-Jonson’s own disclosure that “no pathological or traumatic injuries were observed” on the bones, effectively unequivocally ruling out the possibility that the bones actually belonged to a warrior. Without actual evidence that these bones were actually from a warrior grave, there shouldn’t even have been any speculation with respect to the background of what could very well be a random skeleton, let alone conclusions that the bones were those of a woman Viking warrior. In other cases, there are unburnt bones in bags from graves documented and registered according to Arbman as "cremations" and bags which include the bones of several individuals while being documented as the grave of one person. there are bags of bones tagged with grave numbers that do not exist elsewhere. ![]() She writes:ĭuring the present analysis, it became clear that the osseous material and the contextual information given on the box or bag did not always match the data. This messy chain of evidence is actually referenced in another paper, titled “ People in Transition: Life in the Mälaren Valley from an Osteological Perspective”, and authored by archaeologist Anna Kjellström, who also worked on the study with Hedenstierna-Jonson. As a matter of fact, the only element that connects these bones and the grave are identification materials on the storage bag that fit "the original 19th-century drawings and descriptions”. The grave, however, was excavated in Birka between 18, and no proper chain of evidence was maintained over the course of at least 122 years. The entire study is based on the assumption that bones recently identified as those of a woman were found in a grave believed to be of a warrior. ![]() No Evidence Female Skeleton is Actually Linked to Warrior Grave Hedenstierna-Jonson’s very research is fundamentally flawed from a technical, historical, cultural, and biological aspect, and her conclusions simply have no scientific or factual basis. In a research paper titled “ A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics”, and published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Uppsala University archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson claims to have proven that there were women warriors among Vikings.
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