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The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.

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"Michèle Hayeur Smith uses Viking textiles as evidence for the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the 9th century AD"--

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Hayeur Smith, Michèle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Subjects:
Textile fabrics, Viking > Scandinavia > History.
Women weavers > Scandinavia > History.
Textile fabrics > Scandinavia > History.
Vikings > Clothing > Scandinavia.
Women, Viking > History.
Textile fabrics > North Atlantic Region > History.
Textile fabrics.
Textile fabrics, Viking.
Women, Viking.
Women weavers.
North Atlantic Region.
Scandinavia.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Cold are the Counsels of Women": Bloodied Warps and Gilded Wefts
  • the Engendered Economy of Cloth in the North Atlantic
  • Weaving in the Viking Age: Iceland and the North Atlantic Expansion
  • Textiles, Weaving, and Currency in Iceland during the Middle Ages
  • Textiles in Greenland During the Medieval Period
  • Cloth, Currency, Climate Change and Subsistence in Greenland
  • Textiles and Trade in the North Atlantic during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
  • The Danish Trade Monopoly in the North Atlantic and the Transformation of Women's Roles in Textile Production

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