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Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World

by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

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

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication date

Apr 02, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

280

ISBN

9781788314770