Viking woman had roots near the Black Sea

Picture from the excavation in 1904.








The bones of a women found in one of Norway's most famous Viking graves suggest her ancestors came from the area around the Black Sea.
She were first found in 1904, when the Oseberg Viking ship was excavated, and analysed by a university.

The analysis data was withheld, however, and the woman's remains were returned to the Oseberg burial mound in 1947.

The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne warriors and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of the British Isles and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia from the late 8th-11th century. This period (generally dated 793–1066) is often referred to as the Viking Age. The term Viking has also denoted entire populations of Viking Age Scandinavia and their settlements, as an expanded meaning.