Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 45572
Author(s): Mitsiou, Ekaterini, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, and John Skylitzes,
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Title : The Assault of a Varangian Soldier on a Byzantine Woman in Winter Quarters in Western Asia Minor

Source: Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook. Edited by Claudia Rapp and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller . V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2023. Pages 361 - 363. The text is from Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis historiarum, ed. Hans Thurn, CFHB 5 (Berlin and New York, 1973) 394, 70–77. The translation is from John Skylitzes, A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057, transl. by John Wortley (Cambridge, 2010) 372. That translation has been modified by Ekaterini Mitsiou and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller. The book is available open access at: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.14220/9783737013413
Year of Publication: 2023.

2. Record Number: 44977
Author(s): Moen, Marianne and Matthew J. Walsh,
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Title : Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age

Source: Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 31., 4 ( 2021): Pages 597 - 611. Available open access from Cambridge Core: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000111
Year of Publication: 2021.

3. Record Number: 44699
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Title : Making and Breaking Marriages: (a) Betrothals from the Sagas, (i) The Betrothal of Olaf Hoskuldsson, (ii) How Unn Mordsdottir Found Herself Betrothed

Source: The Viking Age: A Reader. Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 31., 4 ( 2021): Pages 111 - 114.
Year of Publication: 2020.

4. Record Number: 44700
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Title : Making and Breaking Marriages: (b) Divorces from the Sagas, (i) How Gudrun Divorced Thorvald, (ii) Vigdis Divorces Thord Goddi

5. Record Number: 44701
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Title : Women's Work: (a) Housework in Laxdale Saga

6. Record Number: 44702
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Title : Woman’s Work: (b) Magical Woman, (i) The Greenland Prophetess, (ii) A Phallic Ritual: Passing the Penis

7. Record Number: 44703
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Title : Men and Women Behaving Badly: (b) Gisli Sursson Defends the Family Honor, (c) On the Penalties for Poetry, (d) Hallfred the Troublesome Poet and Kolfinna, (e) Grettir the Strong Puts a Woman in Her Place

8. Record Number: 44704
Author(s): Sturluson, Snorri
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Title : Same-Sex Encounters: (a) Penitential of Saint Thorlak, (b) Civil Penalties in Early Norwegian Law, (c) Njal Gives a Garment to Flosi, (d) King Harold Gormsson and the Land-Spirits, (e) Gisli Sursson Fights Skeggi the Berserk

9. Record Number: 44720
Author(s): Sturluson, Snorri
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Title : Gender Instability: Trans-Gender and Gender-Shifting: (a) From Gulathing Law: On Seriously Insulting Speech, (c) From Loki’s Flyting (Lokasenna), (d) Loki and Svadilfari: Loki’s Adventure as a Mare

10. Record Number: 44723
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Title : Valkyries: (a) Helgi and Sigrun I, (b) Helgi and Sigrun II, (c) Brynhild’s Helride

11. Record Number: 44726
Author(s): , Ibn Fadlan,
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Title : A Muslim Diplomat Meets Rus Merchants on the Volga

12. Record Number: 44746
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Title : Games and Entertainment: (b) Skallagrim’s Rough Play

13. Record Number: 44747
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Title : Advice from Odin

14. Record Number: 44748
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Title : Children: (a) Young Grettir Helps around the Farm, (b) Children Mimic Adults, (c) The Child Is Mother of the Woman, (d) Young Egil Plays for Keeps

15. Record Number: 44749
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Title : Manly Men: (a) Gunnar Weeps, (b) The Death of Gunnar, (c) Egil and Armod

Source: The Viking Age: A Reader. Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald . University of Toronto Press , 2020. Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 31., 4 ( 2021): Pages 86 - 91.
Year of Publication: 2020.

16. Record Number: 44750
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Title : Unmanly Men: (a) Deadly Insults from Grágás, (b) A Flyting between Sinfjotli and Gudmund, (c) Egil in Old Age

17. Record Number: 44751
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Title : Making and Breaking Marriages: (a) Betrothals from the Sagas, (i) The Betrothal of Olaf Hoskuldsson, (ii) How Unn Mordsdottir Found Herself Betrothed

18. Record Number: 44752
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Title : Cross-Dressing: (a) Thor as a Bride, (b) How Aud Dealt with Her Humiliating Divorce

19. Record Number: 44753
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Title : Warrior Women: (b) The Waking of Angantýr (The Lay of Hervor, Hervararkviða)

20. Record Number: 44754
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Title : An English Gospel Book Ransomed from the Vikings

21. Record Number: 44755
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Title : Thorfin Karlsefni in Vinland

22. Record Number: 43565
Author(s): Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte, Neil Price, and Torun Zachrisson,
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Title : Viking Warrior Women? Reassessing Birka Chamber Grave Bj.581

Source: Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 181 - 198. Available open access from Cambridge Core: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.258
Year of Publication: 2019.

23. Record Number: 29708
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Title : The Lay of Rig (Rígsþula)

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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 18 - 28. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 18-28.
Year of Publication: 2010.

24. Record Number: 29709
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Title : Hoskuld Buys a Slave

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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 38 - 40. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 38-39.
Year of Publication: 2010.

25. Record Number: 29710
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Title : A Prophetess in Greenland (Retitled The Greenland Prophetess in 2020)

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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 90 - 92. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 121-123.
Year of Publication: 2010.

26. Record Number: 29711
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Title : Unn the Deep-Minded Takes Control of Her Life

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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 126 - 129. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 96-100.
Year of Publication: 2010.

27. Record Number: 29712
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Title : Queen Gunnhild has her way with Hrut

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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 130 - 133. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 125-129.
Year of Publication: 2010.

28. Record Number: 29713
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Title : The Prowess of Freydis, Daughter of Eirik the Red

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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 133 - 135. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 102-104.
Year of Publication: 2010.

29. Record Number: 29714
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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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 136 - 137. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 158-159.
Year of Publication: 2010.

30. Record Number: 29731
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Title : Gudrun Osvifrdaughter's Incitement of Her Sons

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. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 142 - 144. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 109-111.
Year of Publication: 2010.

31. Record Number: 24113
Author(s): Magnúsdóttir, Auður G
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Title : Women and Sexual Politics [The author briefly examines the roles of women in Viking society in terms of political influence. Frequently women attained some power as wives or concubines. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: The Viking World. Edited by Stefan Brink in collaboration with Neil Price . Routledge, 2008. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019): Pages 40 - 48.
Year of Publication: 2008.

32. Record Number: 6222
Author(s): Lewis, Katherine J.
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Title : Odin I await thee, Your true son am I: Seeing Medieval Masculinity in Heavy Metal

Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. . 2002. Antiquity , 93., 267 ( 2019):
Year of Publication: 2002.

33. Record Number: 5129
Author(s): Ager, Barry.
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Title : Pierowall, Orkney: The Re-Discovered Provenance of a "Pair" of Ninth-Century Viking Oval Brooches in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum

Source: Archaeological Journal , 156., ( 1999): Pages 359 - 362.
Year of Publication: 1999.

34. Record Number: 38351
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Title : Oseberg Ship Burial

Source: Archaeological Journal , 156., ( 1999):
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35. Record Number: 40434
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Title : Viking oval brooches

Source: Archaeological Journal , 156., ( 1999):
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