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Women in the Viking Age (Paperback, New Ed)
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Women in the Viking Age (Paperback, New Ed)
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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.
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