World Scene: Norway
China Daily | Updated: 2007-09-11 07:23
Queen and companion exhumed
Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen yesterday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife.
As a less gruesome alternative, the two women in the grass-covered Oseberg mound in south Norway might be a royal mother and daughter who died of the same disease and were buried together in 834.
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