"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"--
"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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Author
Hayeur Smith, Michèle.
Title
The Valkyries' loom [electronic resource] : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.
Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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