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Gepids Discussion
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Leifur of Viking Age Sigtuna
Leifur of Viking Age Sigtuna was not a king, not a saga hero, and not a named chieftain preserved in chronicles. He was, instead, something in some ways more precious: an ordinary man whose bones, burial, isotopes, and DNA allow us to glimpse the human reality of Sweden around the
Viking Age Lady Kata of Varnhem
Kata of Varnhem was an elite woman of 11th-century Sweden, living at a moment when the Viking Age was shading into a Christian Middle Ages. She belonged to the powerful milieu surrounding the wealthy estate at Varnhem in Västergötland, a place that was far more than an ordinary farm. It
Swedish Warship Kronan Sailor
The man represented by sample kro016 was one of the crewmen lost aboard Kronan, the giant flagship of the Swedish navy, when she went down at the Battle of Ă–land in 1676. We do not know his personal name, birthplace, or rank from the information supplied, and that uncertainty matters.
Elite Vendel Warrior of Uppland
The Elite Vendel Warrior of Uppland was a high-status man buried around 588 AD at Tuna in Alsike in the Mälaren region of eastern Sweden, at that intriguing hinge-point between the Migration Period and the Vendel Period. He is known in the genetic record as sample als001, and he mattersLatest Articles
Leifur of Viking Age Sigtuna
Leifur of Viking Age Sigtuna was not a king, not a saga hero, and not a named chieftain preserved in chronicles. He was, instead, something in some ways more precious: an ordinary man whose bones, burial, isotopes, and DNA allow us to glimpse the human reality of Sweden around the
Viking Age Lady Kata of Varnhem
Kata of Varnhem was an elite woman of 11th-century Sweden, living at a moment when the Viking Age was shading into a Christian Middle Ages. She belonged to the powerful milieu surrounding the wealthy estate at Varnhem in Västergötland, a place that was far more than an ordinary farm. It
Swedish Warship Kronan Sailor
The man represented by sample kro016 was one of the crewmen lost aboard Kronan, the giant flagship of the Swedish navy, when she went down at the Battle of Ă–land in 1676. We do not know his personal name, birthplace, or rank from the information supplied, and that uncertainty matters.
Elite Vendel Warrior of Uppland
The Elite Vendel Warrior of Uppland was a high-status man buried around 588 AD at Tuna in Alsike in the Mälaren region of eastern Sweden, at that intriguing hinge-point between the Migration Period and the Vendel Period. He is known in the genetic record as sample als001, and he matters
Celtic Charioteer of Pocklington
The Celtic Charioteer of Pocklington was an elite Iron Age Briton buried in East Yorkshire around 225 BC, in the centuries before Rome reached Britain. Known in ancient-DNA research as sample I5511, he belongs to that rare and fascinating archaeological world in which power was displayed not only in life
Avar Elite Warrior of Carpathia
In about AD 650, in the Carpathian Basin of present-day Hungary, a high-ranking Avar warrior was laid to rest with the unmistakable signals of power. Known to ancient-DNA research as sample A1801, he has been interpreted as a member of the elite retinue surrounding the khagan, the ruler of the
Dame von Pförring Roman Frontier
The woman conventionally known as the Dame von Pförring lived at a most awkward and interesting moment in European history: around 400 AD, when Roman power on the Raetian frontier was thinning, but Roman habits, objects, and prestige still mattered enormously. Buried near Pförring in Bavaria, close to the former
