Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45904
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  • Title: Warrior Women: (b) The Waking of Angantýr (The Lay of Hervor, Hervararkviða)
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 159 - 165.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Hervarar Saga, Icelandic Saga Sagas Vikings Warfare and Warriors in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Scandinavia
  • Century: 10- 11- 12
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  • Related Resources: (b) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from The Saga of Hervor and Heidrek (Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks), in Fornaldur Sögur Norðurlanda (Legendary Sagas of the Northlands), ed. Guðni Jósson (Reykjavík: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan, 1954), vol. 2, pp. 13-22.
  • Author's Affiliation: Brock University [McDonald and Somerville-Retired from the English Department]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)