Viking women : life and lore / Lisa Hannett.
Publication details: Port Melbourne, VIC : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2023.Description: xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760761998 (paperback)
- 948.022
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 948.022 HAN | Issued | 04/05/2024 | 071547 |
Includes bibliographical references.
01. Melkorka: concubine and slave -- 02. Bergthora: a true and stalwart wife -- 03. Hallgerd: the wife with the thief's eyes -- 04. Bera and Thorgerd Brak: mothers at home -- 05. Freydis: a mother abroad -- 06. Breeches-Aud : cross-dressing women -- 07. Two Geirrids and Thorbjorg litilvolva : spell-casters and seers -- 08. Unn: a paragon among women -- 09. Gudtun: an unlikely anchoress.
"Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world...In this groundbreaking work, Lisa Hannett lifts the veil on the untold stories of wives and mothers, girls and slaves, widows and witches who sailed, settled, suffered and survived - and thrived - in a society that largely catered to and memorialised men." -- Back cover.
