Bodies of 2 Viking women get new look
Published: Sept. 11, 2007 at 4:54 PM

OSLO, Norway, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The remains of two Norse-era women are at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway, for detailed examination.

The bodies were found in a Viking burial mound and were reburied in the late 1940s in the mound in an aluminum casket. Scientists decided to dig them up after the recent discovery that the casket had been damaged and was partly covered with water.

Scientists hope that modern techniques, including DNA analysis, will reveal more information than was possible 60 years ago. They might even be able to pin down the two women’s identities.

The bodies were discovered in the Oseberg burial mound near Oslo, which yielded one of the Viking ships now on display in the museum. They are believed to be those of Queen Asa and her daughter or possibly a Viking chieftain‘s wife and her servant.

Later this week, experts plan to exhume a man’s body from the nearby Gokstad burial mound, another ship burial site.

Source: UPI

wow this would be some interesting news. I wonder how much they know about these two woman already. I don't think that a servant would be buried with her master. I don't think that they would of spent the time to bury someone that wasn't of great importance. I mean a queen or chieftain's wife would of had more than one servant.