Readings on Women in Old English and Norse

Extra Reading: What sorts of female characters, deities, queens, and warriors fill the early medieval imagination? For follow-up: Clare Lees, "Men and Beowulf" in her Medieval Masculinities (free through UMass)

Extra Reading Andres Winroth, Chapter 3 "The Power of Gifts" in his The Conversion of Scandinavia (free through UMass)

Note: Regarding the custom of burning the dead as a dedication to Odin: Alan Lacy, 1990. And Heinrich Harke, 1990 on weapons burials among Anglo-Saxons and Germanic tribes.