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Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-21 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-11 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pant
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-12 - Publisher: Springer
Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female charac
Language: en
Pages: 329
Pages: 329
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-02 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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
