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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
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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.)