Abstract: Part 1 Life and death - the evidence of archaeology: the Westness woman the archaeology of burials woman in her home environment. Part 2 Women's lives in runic texts: runic inscriptions objects with runes memorial stones. Part 3 Female colonists: the evidence of names the settlement of Iceland. Part 4 Foreign views: international contact in the Viking age visitors to Scandinavia Viking women outside Scandinavia. Part 5 Art, myth and poetry: female figures in the art of the Viking age sexuality, wisdom and heroism - female figures in Norse myth and legend women in Skaldic poetry the audience of Viking poetry. Part 6 Warrior woman to nun - looking back at Viking women: warrior women Old Norse literature women in the sagas of Icelanders.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
Language: en
Type: book
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