Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350230309ISBN-10:1350230308UPC:9781350230309Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, WomenBook Topic:Nordic Countries, MedievalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCATEA5QFG
Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World
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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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350230309ISBN-10:1350230308UPC:9781350230309Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, WomenBook Topic:Nordic Countries, MedievalSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCATEA5QFG
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir currently works at the National Library of Norway in Oslo. She is currently contributing to a documentary by Ash Thayer entitled Viking Women: The Crying Bones. Her research focuses on Vikings, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry, late medieval Iceland, medieval manuscripts and gender.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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