Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Language and pronunciation
• Introduction
• The awe-inspiring Freyja
• Women in the Viking Age
• Parchment, earth, stones
• 1 Infancy and childhood
• Infants
• Entering the social world
• Children at work and play
• 2 Teenage girls
• Betrothal
• Vulnerability and honour
• Young attraction
• Alternatives to marriage?
• Women as court poets
• Women and weapons
• Shield-maidens
• 3 Adulthood, married life and divorce
• Life in the Viking Age
• Mobility
• Staying rural
• Clothes for busy people
• The accessories
• Hair
• Cohabitation, concubinage and marriage
• The life and roles of a wife
• Loyal, intelligent and assertive
• Women who rule
• Discord and divorce
• 4 Pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood
• Fertility, pregnancy and childbirth
• The importance of mothers
• The abject mother
• 5 Widows
• Mourning, lament, whetting
• Widows, remarriage and politics
• The realities of widowhood
• Successful widows
• 6 Old age and death
• Life in old age
• Magic workers
• Death
• Funerals and burials
• The afterlife
• The Undead
• Epilogue
• Further reading
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Image Section
• Copyright Page