Viking Burials Found in Öland May be First of Many

[@marinab.4190]

Proud to be a Swede from Öland. 🇸🇪❤🙂

[@1neAdam12]

Did you know that the original Vikings were black? True story

[@CKing-388]

Me too!

[@CKing-388]

@@1neAdam12hahahahhahaha in your dreams.

[@1neAdam12]

@@CKing-388 Lol, I'm not even exaggerating that this is what they're teaching kids now in schools. Especially in colleges. They want to brown/bkack wash our ancestry.

[@1neAdam12]

@@CKing-388 No exaggeration, they actually teach our children this. Especially in colleges.

[@Jeremyramone]

That dog seems so proud when locating a viking carcass..

[@h.p.brownsaucecraft7966]

A Y-DNA sample of one of the Vikings discovered here has been revealed to be an ancient ancestor of mine. Pretty weird.

[@debisieger8299]

What an amazing dog

[@LeesaDeAndrea]

Dogs are amazing.

[@hermanstromberg9007]

It was (probably) the warriors from Gråborg on Öland that massacred them. I have been there and it was amazing. They killed all of the men and women but not the children or the animals. That means the children probably starved to death or got eaten by the animals. No-one got buried by their peers. Just left to rot. The probable motive was that the Sandby Borg inhabitants were flexing on everyone else. I'm serious, Gråborg and Sandby borg were the richest communities on the island at that time and the Sandby Borg inhabitants were a little too cocky.

[@Tamacoleo]

Except the researchers found murdered children some only a few months old

[@hermanstromberg9007]

@@Tamacoleo I spoke to the project leader on-site the summer of 2018. This is her info.

[@Niaaal]

Where all of the dead generally burned? If not, finding 28 buried bodies out of a population of 15,000 people doesn't sound like anything too crazy to me

[@joelmattsson2459]

They were brutally killed, it was a massacre

[@pineapplesnowman6929]

Is this related to the black plauge

[@hermanstromberg9007]

No, it was (probably) the warriors from Gråborg on Öland that massacred them. I have been there and it was amazing. They killed all of the men and women but not the children or the animals. That means the children probably starved to death or got eaten by the animals. No-one got buried by their peers. Just left to rot. The probable motive was that the Sandby Borg inhabitants were flexing on everyone else. I'm serious, Gråborg and Sandby borg were the richest communities on the island at that time and the Sandby Borg inhabitants were a little too cocky.

[@TheCasimir94]

The found BoNes on an ancient BURIAL site??? Oh my GOD

[@greatwallofno3533]

You weren't paying much attention to what was being said, I see. I mean they literally told you the location was a 'ring fort' right at the beginning. Forts are places that were/are constructed with specific intent of keeping the living alive. So, no... Not really a burial site. It was a location in which bodies were left until time buried them. Not the same thing.