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Viking-era woman sheds light on Iceland’s earliest settlers

Diet, artifacts tell tale of short life of the ‘woman in blue’

Viking-era brooches

EARLY ICELANDER  A young woman now determined to have been one of Iceland’s earliest settlers was found in 1938 in a grave with various Viking-era objects, including this pair of brooches.

Ivar Brynjólfsson/The National Museum of Iceland

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

ATLANTA — Iceland’s “woman in blue,” the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking-era objects, was a child of some of the island’s earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.