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Warriors and Women: the sex ratio of Norse migrants to eastern England up to 900 AD

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posted on 2023-05-18, 13:26 authored by Shane McLeod
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. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Publication title

Early Medieval Europe

Volume

19

Pagination

332-353

ISSN

0963-9462

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Restricted

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Understanding Europe’s past

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