Ancient Women (Forntida kvinnor)

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

This is a book about the strong Nordic women who lived during the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Viking Era.

Based on the results from archaeological excavations and primarily written sources from Tacitus and Roman times, old German sources, Icelandic sagas and rune stones, this book describes women in various societies.

 

We meet the Nordic women as hunters 10 000 years before Christ, as housewives, warriors, doctors, priests as well as in many other situations and professions. We also read about the strong Viking woman, Viking goddesses such as Nerthus, Freja and Frigg and the world-famous Amazons that are said to have lived on an island in the Baltic Sea. We learn how women dressed in the old Nordic cultures, how they loved, married and went about their everyday lives. To begin with, the barbarians in the North lived a primitive life. While Roman housewives were walking the streets in elegant dresses discussing theater and architecture, German and Nordic women were wearing sealskins and living in small huts.

Soon, however, they became stronger and more independent than their sisters around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. They traveled to Greenland and Russia, could get a divorce and played a central role within the family and society.

 

160 pages

 

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