Anglo-Saxon Burials Are Challenging Our Understanding of Gender Identity

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3. I wonder if some of those burials have

have a connection with clan membership identification with the person's mother or father if they came from a royal or noble line on one side of the family. A kinship designation instead of an individual gender role identity.

Or, it could be evidence of a fluidity of individual gender roles and identification.

Although the Scandinavian Vikings were a different culture, we know from the Icelandic sagas that Greenland's Viking women took part in battles against the "Skraelings" (Native Americans) that they encountered in North America.