Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World

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Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World

Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World

Name: Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World
ISBN: 9781788314770

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

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Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war – to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. Rather than their death being futile, it is their destiny and good fortune, determined by divine beings. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities, for better or worse.

Categorie:

Poetry - European Poetry

Anno:

2020

Casa editrice:

Bloomsbury Academic

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

274

ISBN 10:

1788314778