Nordisk kvinnor i vikingtidens England

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Vikingar eller emmigranter?
Nordiska kvinnor i engelska 'vikinggravar'

Various types of evidence have been used in the search for Norse migrants to eastern England in the latter ninth century. Most of the data gives the impression that Norse females were far outnumbered by males. But using burials that are most certainly Norse and that have also been sexed osteologically provides very different results for the ratio of male to female Norse migrants. Indeed, it suggests that female migration may have been as significant as male, and that Norse women were in England from the earliest stages of the migration, including during the campaigning period from 865.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2011.00323.x/abstract

"These results, six female Norse migrants and seven male, should caution against assuming that the great majority of Norse migrants were male, despite the other forms of evidence suggesting the contrary. This result of almost a fifty-fifty ratio of Norse female migrants to Norse males is particularly significant when some of the problems with osteological sexing of skeletons are taken into account,"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/07/invasion-of-the-viking-women-unearthed/1

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Vikingar eller emmigranter?
Nordiska kvinnor i engelska 'vikinggravar'

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2011.00323.x/abstract


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/07/invasion-of-the-viking-women-unearthed/1

Intressant!
...finns väl många tänkbara svar på detta - en kombination av din fråga kanske?

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Ordnade gravplatser tyder väl på att dom assimilerats i trakten - och fått en värdig begravning, av närstående...?

En annan bild får man ju av endera massgravar som också hittats i södra England. En sällsynt massgrav i Weymouth, på Englands södra spets, innehöll 51 unga män blivit blivit halshuggna och 'dumpade' - tydligen efter ett slag dom förlorat. Av dessa 51 har 10 kommit från olika delar av Skandinaviska halvön, vilket tyder på att dom skandinaviska soldaterna varit allierade med den ena parten i ett inbördeskrig. C14-analysen berättar att slaget hänt någon gång mellan 910 och 1030.

Strontium- och karbon-analyser berättar dessutom att skandinaverna kommit från olika delar av halvön, typ norra Norge och södra Sverige. Det er ju en intressant uppgift som indikerar att skandinaviska ledungstrupper varit allierade under större del av vikingatiden, jfr. "Lodbrok-alliansen". 

Samples of 10 remains were identified as Scandinavian by Dr Jane Evans and Carolyn Chenery, of NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, part of the British Geological Survey, based in Nottingham.

Their work has revealed that the men had scattered Scandinavian origins, with one even thought to be from north of the Arctic Circle. Isotopes in the men's teeth also show they had eaten a high protein diet, comparable with known sites in Sweden.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8563377.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iBGV3IJbLk

Liknande fall från Oxford:
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8496707.Experts_reveal_brutal_Viking_massacre/

Vikingtida massgrav i Repton:
http://www.archeurope.com/index.php?page=viking-overwintering-at-repton

Web-sidan 'Archaeology in Europe' har en bred presentation om nordisk invandring till England under tidlig medeltid:
http://www.archeurope.com/index.php?page=viking-period