Title: Old Norse images of women
First published: 1996
Description: Working from the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and Old Norse prose narratives and laws, Jenny Jochens argues for an underlying cultural continuum of a pagan pantheon and a set of heroic figures shared by the Germanic tribes in Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from AD 500 to 1500. Old Norse Images of Women explores the female half of this legacy, which involves images both divine and human.
Subjects: Goddesses in literature, History, History and criticism, Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Norse Mythology, Old Norse literature, Women, Women in literature, Northmen, Women, history, middle ages, 500-1500, Littérature vieux norroise, Histoire et critique, Femmes, Histoire, Déesses dans la littérature, Femmes dans la littérature, Mythologie nordique, Mythologie, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, German, Middle Ages, Letterkunde, Oudnoords, Vrouwen, Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Places: Scandinavia
Time periods: Middle Ages, 500-1500
LC classification: PT7162.W6 J6 1996