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Researchers stumbled upon a box of human bones that had been missing for 100 years. They may come from Viking-age royalty.
Researchers stumbled upon a box of human bones that had been missing for 100 years. They may come from Viking-age royalty.
Aria BendixMay 5, 2021, 04:34 IST
Researchers Charlotte Rimstad (left) and Ulla Mannering (right) with some of the textiles they studied.Irene Skals/National Museum of Denmark/Antiquity Publications Ltd
Denmark researchers recently stumbled across a box containing human
bones from the Viking age.
The remains were thought to have been lost for the last 100 years.
The bones likely belonged to a wealthy man who may have been royal.
First this Viking’s grave was looted by farmers, then the remains and rich grave goods were recollected – and then mislaid. Moral of the story: Be careful what you write on boxes
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May. 4, 2021 2:01 AM
Don’t you hate to lose your hairpins, your wallet, your Viking ancestor? Happy is the day a kind stranger calls with your mislaid credit card in hand, and when a mislabeled box sitting around the National Museum of Denmark for over a century turns out to contain the missing remains of a rich Viking, originally dug up in Bjerringhøj, a mound near the village of Mammen in Denmark.
The rediscovery of the Viking’s remains and extraordinary garb has been reported by Charlotte Rimstad and Ulla Mannering of the National Museum of Denmark, with Marie Louise Jørkov of the University of Copenhagen and Marie Kanstrup of Aarhus University in the journal of Antiquity.