Did Viking Warrior Women Exist? | History
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Viking warrior women were thought to be the stuff of legends. A 2017 DNA analysis proves they were real. #HistoryChannel
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I’m actually related to this women it’s in my DNA off of 23 and me
Obviously during this time period, men were usually bigger, stronger, and therefore made better melee warriors in battle. I’m guessing you wouldn’t often see women given power in battles/raids. I don’t think anyone is arguing that in the vid.
Whether their conclusions and findings are accurate is very debatable. But they aren’t saying women warriors were just as prominent, better, or even equal during Viking times. Just that they existed (even if they are wrong) and had more rights than other cultures allowed. The fact that this is being twisted is showing your own bias.
1) The skeleton shows no increased muscle mass (required to weld a weapon), no wounds to the body (almost unique if a warrior).
2) Norse grave goods are no ‘as you would think’. Expensive items are placing in the grave as a symbol of the gifter not the dead person.
3) We literally lived alongside and fought the norse for 300 years both here and in Europe. Not once were female warriors seen on the battlefield or elsewhere.
History Channel: Female warriors exist.… Let me tell you about the mythical Valkyries.
LOL
“and now science”? thats BS a grave of ONE person who was burried with a sword and axe means nothing. a story of women defending themselves also means nothing. they didn’t join the men in battle
Sort of. There were exceptions, but the wives, daughters, mothers, and aunts of Vikings had to stay, and defend the home, while the men were out, aViking. “Vikings” as we understand them, didn’t exist. Honestly, all we have of their mythology was from the Eddas, which were compiled, and edited by Christians, centuries after the fact. (As European Christians do.) Also, some contemporary accounts of their victims, told only after surviving raids from the vikings. (Nothing about their wives, and children that stayed home.) A few rare instances like the Danelaw, that people stayed out of, because here there be vikings, and every time you tell the story, the fish get bigger. Norse women weren’t “Warrior women.” They were women who’re married to Vikings. While every able bodied man was out there raiding costal villages across the Baltic, and northern Europe, the women had to stay home, where they were subject to being raided, by Vikings. If the women couldn’t fight, there wouldn’t be any Vikings left in a generation. They could farm, and bake bread too. Of course there were professional Warrior women as well, BUT THAT’S BEEN TRUE THROUGHOUT HISTORY. History is written by the victor, and the vast majority of those victors were men, but just a short list of Warrior Queens from the isle of Britton: Empress “Maud” Matilde, Queen Margaret of York actually negotiated a truce with Queen Mary of Guelders WITHOUT A KING ON THE BOARD, on either side. Queen Anne of France, Queen Anjou was disposed, went and raised an army to take Her crown back, TWICE… However, since this stuff isn’t considered “Ladylike” and they didn’t claim to be ordained by God like Jean de Orleans, they’re not considered “Warrior women.” Look, lots and lots of civilizations realized that there is Strength in Numbers, and if you don’t cut out half your adult population, you have twice the fighting force. If you do the math, yeah men are stronger than women, but they’re not twice as strong. The “Vikings” are one of them. They considered their women to be strong enough to hold the fort, in Viking Waters, while they went aViking. Honestly, this hysterical narrative that women learning to fight during the most warlike ages in history is somehow weird is sexism. Antiquated sexism.
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How dare you assume that body’s gender!
I want a viking woman to burn my house loot it kill my family then step on me.
🙏🏿 mad respect for the Viking men and women of Ancient Norway. Without them I wouldn’t exist. @0:58 now that’s a warrior!
Lol history channel thinks they have any credibility to tell us anything.
Let me get this right. There was woman vikings equally as powerful as men? And 500 years later there’s still no woman in the NFL or fighting men in boxing or MMA? Interesting.
This is ideology, not history. The history channel has gone woke apparently 😔😔😔. Women did not fight as anyone with a working brain knows.
Vikings were just pirates that’s all, most Scandinavians weren’t Vikings/pirates.
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My mom took a DNA test recently and we found out this female Viking warrior is our ancestor. Pretty freaking cool.
The conclusive of this.… No female skeletons has ever been found with “warriors injuries“
It’s a lesbianic idiocy.… Women are 10 times WEAK in physicality and aggression compared to psychopathic warrior Men.
Just look at sports.… a trained 14 yo .….….. and you know it
It’s called sexing by iron. An incredibly irresponsible practice used by most archaeologists.
Every legend or rumor has a bit of truth. Especially if went along for so long. Yes i do believe women fought, they were warriors. Obviously there were not so many of them. That’s why those personas as freydis or lagertha are so famous.
I don’t know if there were female warriors but there had equal rights as men.
Two years later, a lot more evidence for female warriors has been uncovered, and further developments in the Viking material.
Nobody ever mentions Hervor, she was a way better Warrior than Freydis and Laegertha, with a soul eating magic hereditary sword too. She was a female Bearzerker.