ests on two bodies, which dated back to the year 834 and found in a Viking ship in the early 1990s, revealed that the first victims of cancer were from Norway.

According to University of Oslo Anatomy Professor Per Holck, the tests of the two female bodies found buried in the Oseberg showed that one of the women had cancerous tumors in her bones.

"We see here the first known case of cancer in this country," Holck was quoted as saying by Norwegian news agency Aftenposten. He cited that the cancer could have been breast or uterine cancer.

Aftenposten reported that the tests' results also offered contradictory evidence to a previous claim that one of the women was likely the paternal grandmother of Norway's first king, Harald Harfagre.