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Brown, Nancy Marie.
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Women, Viking -- History.
Women -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500.
Vikings -- History.
Civilization, Viking.
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Brown, Nancy Marie.
Women, Viking -- History.
Women -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500.
Vikings -- History.
Civilization, Viking.
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The
real
Valkyrie
: the
hidden
history
of
Viking
warrior
women
/ Nancy Marie Brown.
by
Brown, Nancy Marie.
St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Call #:
948.022 B879r
Subjects
Women
,
Viking
--
History
.
Women
-- Scandinavia --
History
-- To 1500.
Vikings --
History
.
Civilization,
Viking
.
ISBN:
9781250200846 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Hervor's song -- Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings -- The Town Beneath the Shining Hall -- Little "Hel-skins" -- Queen Asa's revenge -- The Winter Nights feast -- The Valkyries' task -- The feud -- The Queen of Orkney -- The tragedy of Brynhild -- Shield-maids -- The Red Girl -- Slave girls -- The slave route to Birka -- Red Earth -- A Birka
warrior
-- The Kaftan -- The East way -- At Linda's stone -- "Gerzkr" caps -- Queen Olga's revenge -- Death of a
Valkyrie
.
Summary:
"In the tradition of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that
Viking
society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female
Viking
warriors. In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a
Viking
warrior
in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The
Real
Valkyrie
weaves together archaeology,
history
, and literature to imagine her life and times, showing that
Viking
women
had more power and agency than historians have imagined. Brown uses science to link the Birka
warrior
, whom she names Hervor, to
Viking
trading towns and to their great trade route east to Byzantium and beyond. She imagines her life intersecting with larger-than-life but
real
women
, including Queen Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings, the
Viking
leader known as The Red Girl, and Queen Olga of Kyiv. Hervor's short, dramatic life shows that much of what we have taken as truth about
women
in the
Viking
Age is based not on data, but on nineteenth-century Victorian biases. Rather than holding the household keys,
Viking
women
in
history
, law, saga, poetry, and myth carry weapons. These
women
brag, "As heroes we were widely known-with keen spears we cut blood from bone." In this compelling narrative Brown brings the world of those valkyries and shield-maids to vivid life."--Publisher.
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