WOMEN IN THE VIKING AGE (POD)

This book reveals the true story of Viking women, offering a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world. Well-illustrated, it investigates what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles.