Ok, it’s not about Iceland, strictly speaking, but this statement is certainly interesting:
“By studying osteological signs of gender within the bones themselves, researchers discovered that approximately half of the remains were actually female warriors, given a proper burial with their weapons.”
A friend of mine argues this article has no reference and, in fact, he is right. If someone had better information or information which could invalidate this article, feel free to let us know.
The real article this article is based on came out many months ago at least (possibly a couple of years), but the conclusion I recall was that half of Vikings were female, not that half the warriors were female.
(But they did find some female warrior corpses previous counts had missed, yes.)
I believe this is the paper:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2011.00323.x/abstract
Hmm.. Think it’s the right guy, but that paper is old.
Ok, thanks! 😉