The Real Valkyrie - Nancy Marie Brown

‘As heroes we were widely known – with keen spears we cut blood from bone.’In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history and literature to reinvent her life and times, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined.Nancy Marie Brown links the Birka warrior, whom she names Hervor, to Viking trading... Zobrazit více