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    1. [yDNAhgI] Nordic Cemetary from the XI-th century
    2. Marek Skarbek Kozietulski
    3. Recently, on the Internet some articles were published on a warriors cemetery of Nordic provenance newly discovered in Central Poland near the village Bodzia: <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/pictures/111216-warrior-gra ves-polish-viking-treasure-science/> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/pictures/111216-warrior-grav es-polish-viking-treasure-science/ <http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/buko330/> http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/buko330/ Some archeologists link this cemetery in Bodzia to Varangians, and especially to the events of 1018, when the Grand Duke of Kiev, Sviatopelk faced by a rebellion in his state has escaped to his father in law, the King of Poland, Boleslaus the Brave. He was killed in a battle on the way to Poland, but his widow and son protected by his Varangian guard detachment arrived to Poland. The graves in Bodzia could be of this Varangian guard detachment. However, in Northern and Central Poland were already earlier discovered several cemeteries with graves of Nordic warriors. Archeologists link Bodzia with Varangians, but other cemeteries of this kind are rather linked to warriors of Danish origin. All of them are dated for the time after the mid of the Xth century, just after the Polish State was formed. Polish archeologists are now very interested in genetic tests of warriors buried at these cemeteries.

    12/19/2011 05:45:14