The Hidden Lives of Viking Women : Archaeological and Historical Perspectives

Hayeur Smith, Michèle (EDT)/ Sanmark, Alexandra (EDT)

Casemate Publishers（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798888571866
• DDC分類 948.022082

Full Description

This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Viking women as well as the impacts of change on women during the turbulent period of the Viking Age. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, this is a book dedicated to the lesserknown aspects of women's lives as active members of society. It provides an innovative way of bringing together work from archaeological, anthropological, historical, and literary perspectives to address questions about women in trade, in war, in magic, in the household and activities that provided women with power and respect in their communities.

Contents

1. Introduction
Michèle Hayeur Smith, Alex Sanmark and Kevin P. Smith
2. Aspects of violence connected to women in the Old Norse legal systems
Anne Irene Riisøy
3. Migrants, conquerors, settlers: Viking women in Britain
Shane McLeod
4. Women in trade and exchange
Unn Pedersen
5. Women as partners - gender balance and cooperation in the Viking Age household
Alex Sanmark and Tara Athanasiou
6. Choosing the hero: drink and the institutionalization of heroism
Karen BekPedersen
7. The housewife and cult leader Friðgerðr Þorðardóttir in Viking Age Iceland
Olof Sundqvist
8. The Völva's toolkit: Viking Age ritual specialists and the tools of their trade
Leszek Gardeła
9. Women's Textile Magic in Viking Age Iceland
Michèle Hayeur Smith