Viking woman with her children before a runestone in Scandinavia painted by Carl Larsson

Women of the North: The Viking housewife and mother

This is the first post in a series on the role of women in the Viking age. As this year’s summer blot is dedicated to Freya, the most radiant of the goddesses, we wish to start this series with a post on her representative on earth, namely the housewife (husfrue). The Viking housewife The word …

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