Women and Weapons in the Viking World

Höfundur: Leszek Gardela (Útgáfa: 0)
Women and Weapons in the Viking World

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„Hressandi lesning. Gardeła endurmetur tengsl kvenna og ofbeldis í samfélagi ármiðalda sem skildi eftir sig fáar ritaðar heimildir.“ — Studies in Late Antiquity. Í bókinni er hugmyndin um „vopnuðu konuna“ á víkingaöld rannsökuð með heildstæðri og þvermenningarlegri nálgun og dregin upp blæbrigðarík mynd af lífi kvenna í heimi víkinga. Víkingaöldin (um 750–1050 e.Kr.) er jafnan sýnd sem umbrotatími þegar herskáir skandinavískir víkingar ollu miklum usla um alla Evrópu og norrænir kaupmenn ferðuðust til fjarlægra heimshorna í leit að þrælum, silfri og framandi varningi.

Þar til tiltölulega nýlega hefur norrænu samfélagi á þessu mikilvæga skeiði mannkynssögunnar verið lýst sem samfélagi undir yfirráðum karla, þar sem lítið hefur verið gert úr hlutverkum kvenna eða þeim jafnvel vísað á bug. Fjöldi ritaðra heimilda og fornleifa bendir þó til þess að mörg af stórkostlegustu afrekum Skandinava á víkingaöld — í handverki, landkönnun, viðskiptum milli menningarheima, hernaði og á öðrum sviðum lífsins — hefðu ekki verið möguleg án virkrar þátttöku kvenna. Raddir kvenna heyrðust bæði innan veggja heimilisins og á opinberum vettvangi, og á þær var hlustað og farið eftir þeim.

Í þessari ríkulega myndskreyttu brautryðjendabók eru kannaðar frásagnir af stríðskonum og tengsl kvenna við hernað á víkingaöld. Stuðst er við bókmenntir og fornleifar frá Skandinavíu og hinum víðari heimi víkinga til að rannsaka þær ástæður og aðstæður sem leiddu til þess að konur tóku þátt í vopnuðum átökum. „Þessi bók er verðmætt framlag til yfirstandandi umræðu um hlutverk kvenna á víkingaöld.“

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Útgefandi
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
ISBN
9781789256666
Print ISBN
9781789256659
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Leszek Gardela
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2021-11-30
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
10

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  • Front Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: the methodological and theoretical framework
  • Entering the Viking world … of the dead
  • Funerary diversity
  • Cremation graves
  • Inhumation graves
  • Lost identities and elusive grave goods
  • Warriors and warrior ideals
  • Sex and gender in the Viking Age
  • Amazons of the North: the scope of the book
  • 2. Historiography
  • Researching women in the Viking Age
  • Warrior women in Old Norse studies and Viking archaeology
  • 3. Women and weapons in medieval textual sources
  • Armed women in Gesta Danorum
  • Armed women in Old Norse Literature
  • Women and weapons in the Íslendingasögur
  • Freydís Eiríksdóttir
  • Þórdís Súrsdóttir
  • Auðr and Þuriðr
  • Þórhildr Vaðlækkja
  • Not only axes and swords: understanding women’s weapons
  • Women and weapons in the fornaldarsögur
  • Hervör Bjarmarsdóttir
  • Þornbjörg Eiríksdóttir
  • Other armed women in the fornaldarsögur
  • Armed women in Old Norse mythology
  • Valkyrjur, disir, fylgjur
  • Skaði
  • Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr
  • Female Giantesses as grinders of war and bearers of arms
  • Armed women of the Viking Age in non-Scandinavian medieval sources
  • Æthelflæd of Mercia
  • Women and war in the account of John Skylitzes
  • Women with weapons in medieval literature: more than literary embellishments
  • 4. Women and weapons in Viking archaeology: the burial evidence
  • Female graves with weapons
  • Swedish female graves with weapons
  • Norwegian female graves with weapons
  • Danish female graves with weapons
  • 5. Interpreting the arsenal of armed women
  • Women and axes in the Viking Age
  • Axes in the Viking Age
  • Axes in Viking Age funerary contexts
  • Miniature axes
  • Interpreting axes in Viking Age female graves
  • Women and axes in textual sources and folklore
  • Women and axes in the Viking Age: conclusions
  • Women and swords in the Viking Age
  • Swords in the Viking Age
  • Swords in Viking Age funerary contexts
  • Women and weaving swords
  • Women and swords in iconography
  • Miniature swords
  • Interpreting swords in Viking Age female graves
  • Women and swords in Old Norse sources
  • Women and swords in the Viking Age: conclusions
  • Women and spears in the Viking Age
  • Spears in the Viking Age
  • Spears in Viking Age funerary contexts
  • Women and spears in iconography
  • Miniature spears
  • Interpreting spears in Viking Age female graves
  • Women and spears in Old Norse sources
  • Women and spears in the Viking Age: conclusions
  • Women and shields in the Viking Age
  • Shields in the Viking Age
  • Shields in Viking Age funerary contexts
  • Women and shields in iconography
  • Miniature shields
  • Interpreting shields in Viking Age female graves
  • Women and shields in Old Norse sources
  • Women and shields in the Viking Age: conclusions
  • Women, bows and arrows in the Viking Age
  • Bows and arrows in the Viking Age
  • Bows and arrows in Viking Age funerary contexts
  • Interpreting bows and arrows in Viking Age female graves
  • Women, bows and arrows in Old Norse sources
  • Women, bows and arrows in the Viking Age: conclusions
  • Women, riding equipment and horses in the Viking Age
  • Riding equipment in the Viking Age
  • Riding equipment and horses in Viking Age funerary contexts
  • Interpreting riding equipment and horses in Viking Age female graves
  • Women and horses in Old Norse sources
  • Women, horses and riding equipment in the Viking Age: conclusions
  • 6. Women and weapons in Viking Age iconography
  • The so-called ‘valkyrie brooches’: distribution and materiality
  • (Re)interpreting the so-called ‘valkyrie brooches’
  • Freyja and a warrior woman?
  • Sigurðr and Brynhildr/Sigrdrífa
  • Other iconographic representations of armed females in Viking Age Scandinavia and England
  • 7. Women with weapons: a cross-cultural phenomenon
  • Warrior women in prehistoric times
  • Female cross-dressers in early modern Europe
  • The Amazons of Dahomey
  • Women in the First and Second World Wars
  • Emerging patterns and conclusions
  • 8. Amazons of the North? Women and weapons in the Viking world
  • Women and weapons in Viking archaeology
  • Women and weapons in medieval texts
  • The way of the warrior: past and present
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Back Cover