Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 29908
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  • Title: A Warrior Woman
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 14.  University of Toronto Press, 2010.  Pages 136 - 137. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 158-159.
  • Description: In this excerpt from the "History of the Danes," the historian Saxo Grammaticus recounts the story of King Ragnar Lodbrok's infatuation with the warrior-woman Ladgerda.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Vikings Warfare and Warriors in Literature Women in Active Roles in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Scandanavia
  • Century: 9, 13
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  • Year of Publication: 2010.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781442601475 (hbk.) ; 9781442601482 (pbk.)