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Article: Old Norse Images of Women.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Jenny Jochens. Philadelphia: u Pennsylvania P, 1996. Pp. XV + 326.
Gender studies have become a prominent theme in Old Norse-Icelandic studies. Indeed, Jochens's Old Norse Images of Women is preceded by no less than three such book-length studies in the 1990s alone: Judith Jesch's Women in the Viking Age (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1991), Helga Kress's Mattugar meyjar (Reykjavik: Haskolautgafan, 1993), and Jochens's own Women in Old Norse Society (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995).
Whereas Women in Old Norse Society offers an historical analysis of ordinary women in medieval Iceland and is based primarily on the Sagas of Icelanders, the contemporary sagas, and legal ...