Women in the Viking AgeBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 1991 - 239 sider Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women. Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores an unfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world. JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham. |
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Æsir al-Ghazal annals Arabic Auðr battle Bergþóra Birka Bjarni brother burials buried Christian chronicle commemorated cremation Danish daughter dead death Denmark Dynna Eddic England English father female characters female figures female graves Fisher and Davidson Freydís Freyja Gísla saga goddess gods Gotland Guðrún Gunnhildr Haithabu Hallgerðr Haraldr heathen Helgi poem husband interpretation Íslendingabók jewellery killed king Kjartan Landnámabók large number later Laxdæla saga literary lived Loki Magnús male marriage married medieval monument mother myth ninth Njáls saga Norway Norwegian Óðinn Óláfr Old Norse Olga Oseberg oval brooches period Poetic Edda poets preserved raids role runes runestones runic inscriptions Rūs Sagas of Icelanders Saxo's Scandina Scandinavian women settlement settlers ship Sigrún sister Skaði skaldic poetry skaldic verse slaves Snorri Snottsta sons sources suggest Sweden Swedish sword tell tenth century texts tion trading traditions translation Unnr Valhall valkyries Viking Age warrior wife woman Þórr