Thank you for posting! The gender of researchers can & does have a huge impact on findings, leading to, for example, the myth that male lions lead the pride.....

All us Veterans were trained to master pain

Maybe she was just clumsy.

There are similar examples from the Viking era. The best-known example is the "Birka Woman", who was discovered in Sweden buried in a typical warrior's grave complete with weaponry and the skeletons of two horses in 1889 - it wasn't until the 1970s that someone examining her bones noticed that she wasn't a man. Another example from Asnes is Norway was immediately recognised to be the skeleton of a woman, but many archaeologists insisted she couldn't be a warrior even though she also was buried with weapons, shields and other artifacts commonly found in Viking warrior graves (and a very nasty sword wound to her head) simply because she was female.