Valkyrie

Höfundur: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (Útgáfa: 1)
Valkyrie

Kaup valmöguleikar

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZEValkyries: 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 women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities, for better or worse. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Valkyrie introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too.

Nánar um bókina

Útgefandi
Bloomsbury UK
ISBN
9781350137103
Print ISBN
9781350230309
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2020-04-02
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
10

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Language and pronunciation
  • Introduction
  • The awe-inspiring Freyja
  • Women in the Viking Age
  • Parchment, earth, stones
  • 1 Infancy and childhood
  • Infants
  • Entering the social world
  • Children at work and play
  • 2 Teenage girls
  • Betrothal
  • Vulnerability and honour
  • Young attraction
  • Alternatives to marriage?
  • Women as court poets
  • Women and weapons
  • Shield-maidens
  • 3 Adulthood, married life and divorce
  • Life in the Viking Age
  • Mobility
  • Staying rural
  • Clothes for busy people
  • The accessories
  • Hair
  • Cohabitation, concubinage and marriage
  • The life and roles of a wife
  • Loyal, intelligent and assertive
  • Women who rule
  • Discord and divorce
  • 4 Pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood
  • Fertility, pregnancy and childbirth
  • The importance of mothers
  • The abject mother
  • 5 Widows
  • Mourning, lament, whetting
  • Widows, remarriage and politics
  • The realities of widowhood
  • Successful widows
  • 6 Old age and death
  • Life in old age
  • Magic workers
  • Death
  • Funerals and burials
  • The afterlife
  • The Undead
  • Epilogue
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Image Section
  • Copyright Page