Viking Grave

I thought I had posted about the original find last summer, but either I failed to tag it or I simply forgot to post and thought I had (very likely).

As you'll see in the story, a mass grave was found last summer, and the murdered or executed men were thought to be Vikings. "Weymouth ridgeway skeletons 'Scandinavian Vikings'" confirms the suspicion: tests on the teeth shows at least some of the young men grew up in a colder climate than that of the UK, and died between 910 and 1030. Scholars rather want to link the apparent executions—the dead men are all young men, not armed, stripped, and killed with no signs they fought back—to the St. Brice's Day Massacre. Of course, Anglo-Saxonists also tend to be rather a cautious bunch, so no one is committing to that theory yet (as far as I know); it's just suggested at this point.

Viking Grave

I thought I had posted about the original find last summer, but either I failed to tag it or I simply forgot to post and thought I had (very likely).

As you'll see in the story, a mass grave was found last summer, and the murdered or executed men were thought to be Vikings. "Weymouth ridgeway skeletons 'Scandinavian Vikings'" confirms the suspicion: tests on the teeth shows at least some of the young men grew up in a colder climate than that of the UK, and died between 910 and 1030. Scholars rather want to link the apparent executions—the dead men are all young men, not armed, stripped, and killed with no signs they fought back—to the St. Brice's Day Massacre. Of course, Anglo-Saxonists also tend to be rather a cautious bunch, so no one is committing to that theory yet (as far as I know); it's just suggested at this point.