Women in the Viking Age

by Judith Jesch

Book Overview

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.

Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN

This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking coloniesfrom Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851153607
• ISBN13: 9780851153605
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"