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  title info:
    title: Valkyrie
    sub title: the women of the Viking world
  name:
    name part: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 252 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Valkyries, the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about Valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war, to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. Rather than their death being futile, it is their destiny and good fortune, determined by divine beings. The fateful agency of women is widespread in Norse sources. Norse sagas and Viking myths tell stories of war and strife, loyalty and betrayal, murder and revenge, privation and success. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities and families, for better or worse. But in some spheres, women are systematically oppressed or excluded because of their gender, and the sagas comunicate heartbreaking stories of girls' and women's traumatic experiences that resonate strongly today. In Valkyrie, Jóhanna Katrín Fridriksdóttir introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland. It was a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of powerful roles, pulling the strings not just in this world but in the other-world too. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, this book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women.
  table of contents: Introduction: 'Valkyries decide who dies or lives' -- Infancy and childhood -- Teenage girls -- Adulthood, married life and divorce -- Pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood -- Widows -- Old age and death -- Epilogue.
  note: Jóhanna Katrín Fridriksdóttir.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ev-----
  subject:
    topic: Women, Viking
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: Scandinavia
    topic: History
    temporal: Middle Ages, 500-1500
  subject:
    topic: Old Norse literature
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: DL65 .F75 2020
  classification: 948.022
  identifier: 9781788314770
  identifier: 1788314778
  identifier: 9781350137127
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190628
    record change date: 20210810091417.0
    record identifier: in00004169197