Women in the Viking Age

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1991 - Broj stranica: 239
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 coloniesfrom 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 andthe British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores anunfamiliar 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.

 

Sadržaj

LIFE AND DEATH THE EVIDENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
9
CHAPTER II
42
CHAPTER III
75
CHAPTER IV
81
AFT MYTH AND POETRY
124
Chapter VI
176
CONCLUSION
203
Notes
209
Bibliography
221
Index
233
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