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Women Beyond the Cross: Power, Myth, and Agency in the Viking World - Medievalists.net

Women in Viking-age Scandinavia held significant authority as estate managers, property holders, ritual figures, and occasional political actors within a hierarchical, pragmatic society.
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Fimbulvetr: When the Medieval World Saw the Sun Go Dark - Medievalists.net

In the medieval world, strange signs in the sky were rarely ignored. In AD 536, when the sun seemed to lose its light and the climate turned harsh, that catastrophe may have been remembered in the terrifying Norse legend of Fimbulvetr. In our medieval past, the sky was thought to be tightly connected with the landscape. Historical sources show a deep sense of fear caused by celestial phenomena such as comets, meteors, bolides, and even the aurora borealis.
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