Hidden Lives of Viking Women

1. Introduction
Michele Hayeur Smith, Alex Sanmark and Kevin P. Smith
2. Aspects of violence connected to women in the Old Norse legal systems
Anne Irene Riisoy
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 Fri?ger?r ?or?ardottir in Viking Age Iceland
Olof Sundqvist
8. The Voelva's toolkit: Viking Age ritual specialists and the tools of their trade
Leszek Gardela
9. Women's Textile Magic in Viking Age Iceland
Michele Hayeur Smith

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• Obras em matérias têxteis
• Arqueologia por períodos e regiões
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
• História da Europa
• Armas e equipamemnto
• História Militar
• As religiões antigas e mitologias

Investigates the concepts of gendered work and space of the Viking Age and Norse period, critically examining the traditional reliance on idealised, separate gender roles within subsistence farming households and examines how whole households (husbands, wives, blood and other relatives, hired hands and slaves) worked together for their joint survival. Demonstrates that while textile work was a distinctly female activity within a strongly patriarchal society; even when textiles became the basis of the Icelandic economy, their production provided women with a say in economic matters and strong political, even magical, powers that brought the bargaining and negotiations of power down to the household level. Reviews evidence for Viking women in Britain, demonstrating that women were present with the armies that won new lands for settlement and were thus part of the conquest and early acculturation processes; playing varied roles outside the stereotyped ones of wives and mothers, such as bearers of weapons, sorceresses and rune carvers.