Women in the Viking Age

This book investigate what women did in the Viking Age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. The author assembles the clues provided by archaelogy, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical sources, art history and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking Age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland or the British Isles.