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Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pant

Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs,

Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female charac

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

Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, femi