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"Perhaps the strangest of these graves". This is how the archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe himself describes the grave in Birka, which came to be numbered Bj 581, in his report to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1879. With its complete weapon equipment, two horses and exotic costume details, the grave has since often served as an example of the ultimate Viking Age warrior. When new analyzes of the bones showed that the person buried was a woman, both doubts and questions were suddenly raised. How should we really understand the tomb of a warrior who was a woman? With Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, archaeologist and researcher at the History Museum.