![]() ![]() ![]() People needed to know how to fight and how to defend themselves. At the same time, Viking Age Scandinavia was a violent society, fueled by vendettas and power struggles. In popular culture, Vikings are mainly known for their fighting abilities, but being a warrior was only a part-time occupation in a life otherwise based on farming and fishing, in which both men and women were needed for the family to survive. 800–1050), men and women from what is today Norway, Sweden, and Denmark set sail to new lands and spread out across a vast area reaching from the North Atlantic to the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean. That we so desperately want to believe in the Viking woman warrior, despite evidence to the contrary, says a lot about the ongoing women's movement, and betrays our rigid ideals of how we want female strength to be displayed.ĭuring the Viking Age (c. 581 had been a warrior is based on some wobbly assumptions. ![]() According to the critics, the claim that the woman in Bj. But what hasn't attracted as much attention is the ongoing controversy among scholars about the validity of these recent conclusions. She has even been called a "real-life Viking version" of Game of Thrones' iconic female knight, Brienne of Tarth. The tale of the Viking woman warrior from Birka continues to capture our imaginations. ![]()
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