Viking Age Women

The recent British Museum exhibition, Vikings: Life and Legend (currently on in Berlin), had a strong focus on war, death and bling. Is it now time to turn back to the equally fascinating topic of everyday life in the Viking Age? Both Judith Jesch and Christina Lee have just published papers on women and the Viking Age. In In Search of Vikings, ed. Harding, Royles and Griffiths, Christina Lee has a chapter on 'Viking Age women', focusing on the evidence of textiles and textile working in the Irish Sea region, while Judith Jesch's chapter on 'Speaking like a Viking' in the same book considers the roles of women in Irish Sea settlements. In Kvinner i vikingtid, ed. Coleman and Lokka, Judith Jesch's paper on 'Women and identities' examines the question of identities in Viking Age Iceland.