{"id":5049,"date":"2007-09-10T12:28:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2007-09-10T12:28:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T12:28:04","slug":"viking-queen-raised-from-her-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/viking-queen-raised-from-her-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Queen Raised from Her Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070910\/sc_nm\/vikings_dc_1\" class=\"external external_icon\">Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will do DNA tests to try to find out. I don&#8217;t know of any Viking skeletons that have been analyzed as we plan to do,&#8221; Egil Mikkelsen, director of Oslo&#8217;s Museum of Cultural History, told Reuters at the graveside.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Mikkelsen said he saw no ethical objections to opening the grave, partly because the two were buried so long ago and no one even knew their names.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}