Shield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway

This paper provides new insights into the custom of burying women with weapons in Viking Age Norway. Possible female graves furnished with swords, axe heads, spearheads and arrowheads are known from Rogaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Telemark, Trøndelag and Vestfold, and although each case is unique, they...

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Autor principal:	Leszek Gardeła
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	NB SV
Publicado:	Norsk arkeologisk selskap 2021
Materias:	Archaeology CC1-960
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/65493ac5bc9e4a9292e6c048c55edb50
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:65493ac5bc9e4a9292e6c048c55edb502021-11-23T14:50:59ZShield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway10.5617/viking.90470332-608X2535-2660https://doaj.org/article/65493ac5bc9e4a9292e6c048c55edb502021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.uio.no/viking/article/view/9047https://doaj.org/toc/0332-608Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2535-2660 This paper provides new insights into the custom of burying women with weapons in Viking Age Norway. Possible female graves furnished with swords, axe heads, spearheads and arrowheads are known from Rogaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Telemark, Trøndelag and Vestfold, and although each case is unique, they share some intriguing confluences. In addition to weapons, their assemblages often contain high quality jewellery, curated objects, amulets, and items imported from distant locations. This paper investigates various source critical and methodological issues associated with these finds and situates them in an interdisciplinary context, seeking to propose new ideas on who the deceased were in life and how their mourners wanted to remember them in death. Leszek GardełaNorsk arkeologisk selskaparticleArchaeologyCC1-960NBSVViking, Vol 84, Iss 1 (2021)
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description	This paper provides new insights into the custom of burying women with weapons in Viking Age Norway. Possible female graves furnished with swords, axe heads, spearheads and arrowheads are known from Rogaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Telemark, Trøndelag and Vestfold, and although each case is unique, they share some intriguing confluences. In addition to weapons, their assemblages often contain high quality jewellery, curated objects, amulets, and items imported from distant locations. This paper investigates various source critical and methodological issues associated with these finds and situates them in an interdisciplinary context, seeking to propose new ideas on who the deceased were in life and how their mourners wanted to remember them in death.
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title	Shield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway
title_short	Shield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway
title_full	Shield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway
title_fullStr	Shield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway
title_full_unstemmed	Shield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway
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Shield-maidens and Norse Amazons Reconsidered Women and Weapons in Viking Age Burials in Norway

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