Search Results for: Women And Weapons In The Viking World

The Viking Age (c. 750–1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia wreaked havoc across the European

“Invigorating . . . Gardeła reappraises the connections between women and violence in an early-medieval society that has left few texts to guide us.” —St

A pioneering and lavishly illustrated monograph which provides an in-depth exploration of women's associations with the martial sphere of life in the Viking Age

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.