Krigarkvinnan från Birka, grav Bj581 : ett genusperspektiv

Sammanfattning: Birka contains a lot of rich graves and tombs with weapons and warriors, one of these has beeninterpreted as a male in the late 1900-th century but now confirmed as a woman according to anew study of her aDNA. In her grave there where a lot of objects that´s been interpreted asmasculine before but now we can see that they were used by a woman. The warrior womanfrom Birka has raised a lot of questions whether of the aDNA was correct. This paper is goingto look through the critics by a gender perspective and see if its reasonable.