A New Book on Viking Women
Gunnora Hallakarva
gunnora at bga.com
Tue Dec 3 22:52:50 PST 1996
Here's another great book for you Viking women out there to add to your Yule
Wish Lists:
Begin forwarded message:
For those who are interested in Jenny Jochens new book:
_Old Norse Images of Women_; by Jenny Jochens
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; 326 pp.
ISBN: 0-8122-3358-1
Here is a listing of the Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1. The Germanic-Nordic Continuum
Germanic Migrations
Religious Continuity
Genealogical Connections
DIVINE IMAGES
2. Ancient Female Figures
Fertility Goddesses
Fetches (Fylgjur)
Guardian Spirits (Di'sir)
Valkyries (Valkyrjur)
Norns (Nornir)
Sibyls (Vo,lur)
Land-Spirits (Landvaettir)
Worship and Cult
3. The Classical Nordic Pantheon: Goddesses and Gender
Procreation
Desire and Sexual Behavior
Marriage
Two Goddesses: Frigg and Freyja
Daily Life and Work
Magic (Seidhr)
Pagan Misogyny
Worship and Cult
Snorri's Role for Female Images
HUMAN IMAGES
4. The Warrior Woman
Sigrdri'fa/Brynhildr: War and Wisdom
Shield-Maidens (Skjaldmeyjar): Sigru'n and Sva'va
Maiden Warriors
Maiden Kings (Meykonungar)
Characteristics of Female Warriors
Women in War: The Historical Record
5. The Prophetess/Sorceress
Female Leadership
Germanic and Nordic Human Prophetesses
Magic and Gender
6. The Avenger
Twin Imagery
Gudhru'n
Signy'
Revenging Women in History
7. The Whetter: Brynhildr
The Continental Whetter in Nordic Literature
The Queens' Quarrel
The Whetter in Continental History
8. The Nordic Whetter
Aristocratic Whetters
Royal Whetters
Ancient Icelandic Whetters
Whetters in the Contemporary Sagas
Male Reaction to Whetting
Why Whet?
Conclusion
Appendix One: Sources
Latin Evidence
Runes
Northern Vernacular Writing
Appendix Two: Historiography of Norse Women--
Paul-Henri Mallet and Laurits Engelstoft
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Wassail and God Jul,
::GUNNORA::
Gunnora Hallakarva
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