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

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

Using interdisciplinary techniques and research, the author explores Old Norse literature from a feminist perspective, using gender analysis to study the societ

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

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