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DISPATCH #064
■ True Stories

The Viking Warrior Everyone Got Wrong

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For over 130 years, one of the most famous Viking warrior graves was assumed to belong to a man. Weapons, horses, battle gear, everything pointed to an elite fighter. Then DNA testing revealed the truth: the warrior buried at Birka was female, forcing historians to rethink what they thought they knew about Viking society.

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