Vikings acquitted in 100-year-old murder mystery
In all seriousness, the article states that the younger woman was not a maid killed ritually to be the companion for a queen in the afterlife as previously thought. Instead, she was a woman of high rank herself, having even used a metal toothpick, a rare luxury. The older woman, long supposed to be the grandmother of the first king of Norway, died of cancer, something that could be determined from her bones. She also had a syndrome that caused hair growth and a thickening of the body due to a hormonal imbalance. The young woman had a broken clavicle that had been healing, but there is no evidence that she was killed.
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