In 1968, a weapon grave with brooches was found at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Hattula, Finland. Since then, the grave has been interpreted as evidence of powerful women, even female warriors and leaders in early medieval Finland. Others have denied the possibility of a woman buried with a sword and tried to explain it as a double burial. We present the first modern analysis of the grave, including an examination of its context, a soil sample analysis for microremains, and an aDNA analysis. Based on these analyses, we suggest a new interpretation: the Suontaka grave possibly belonged to an individual with sex-chromosomal aneuploidy XXY. The overall context of the grave indicates that it was a respected person whose gender identity may well have been non-binary.

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有剑的女人？– 芬兰 Suontaka Vesitorninmäki 的武器墓地

1968 年，在芬兰哈图拉的 Suontaka Vesitorninmäki 发现了一个带有胸针的武器坟墓。从那时起，坟墓就被解释为强大女性的证据，甚至是中世纪早期芬兰的女性战士和领袖。其他人则否认女性被剑埋葬的可能性，并试图将其解释为双重埋葬。我们提出了对坟墓的第一次现代分析，包括对其背景的检查、微遗迹的土壤样本分析和 aDNA 分析。基于这些分析，我们提出了一种新的解释：Suontaka 坟墓可能属于具有性染色体非整倍体 XXY 的个体。坟墓的整体背景表明这是一个受人尊敬的人，其性别认同很可能是非二元的。