Female Warriors of the Viking Age

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Women of Violence: Warriors, Aggressors, and Perpetrators of Violence" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In my presentation I will explore how women in the Viking age contributed to acts of violence by looking into three different cases of burials containing women with weapons and armaments. I will draw these studies from my original Master’s thesis published in 2017 and focus solely on the archaeological evidence, leaving out additional textual mentions of women warriors for the sake of brevity. I will also discuss the theoretical approaches one can use when examining these sites, archaeology of gender and feminist theory, and compare them to the original interpretations from these sites and the implications they bring.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Women of Violence: Warriors, Aggressors, and Perpetrators of Violence

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Abstract Id(s): 23812