The Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

by SarahM.Anderson (Editor), KarenSwenson (Series Editor), Sarah M. Anderson (Editor), Karen Swenson (Series Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2015

  $63.30

  Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.