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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History Of Viking Warrior Women
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In The Tradition Of Stacy SchiffS Cleopatra, Brown Lays To Rest The Hoary Myth That Viking Society Was Ruled By Men And Celebrates The Dramatic Lives Of Female Viking WarriorsOnce Again, Brown Brings Viking History To Vivid, Unexpected LifeAnd In The Process, Turns What We Thought We Knew About Norse Culture On Its Head. Superb. Scott Weidensaul, Author Of New York Times Bestselling A World On The WingMagnificent. It Captured Me From The Very First Page. Pat Shipman, Author Of The Invadersin 2017, Dna Tests Revealed To The Collective Shock Of Many Scholars That A Viking Warrior In A HighStatus Grave In Birka, Sweden Was Actually A Woman. The Real Valkyrie Weaves Together Archaeology, History, And Literature To Imagine Her Life And Times, Showing That Viking Women Had More Power And Agency Than Historians Have Imagined.Nancy Marie Brown Uses Science To Link The Birka Warrior, Whom She Names Hervor, To Viking Trading Towns And To Their Great Trade Route East To Byzantium And Beyond. She Imagines Her Life Intersecting With LargerThanLife But Real Women, Including Queen Gunnhild MotherOfKings, The Viking Leader Known As The Red Girl, And Queen Olga Of Kyiv. HervorS Short, Dramatic Life Shows That Much Of What We Have Taken As Truth About Women In The Viking Age Is Based Not On Data, But On NineteenthCentury Victorian Biases. Rather Than Holding The Household Keys, Viking Women In History, Law, Saga, Poetry, And Myth Carry Weapons. These Women Brag, As Heroes We Were Widely KnownWith Keen Spears We Cut Blood From Bone. In This Compelling Narrative Brown Brings The World Of Those Valkyries And ShieldMaids To Vivid Life.Editbuild
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