The Valkyries’ Loom
236 pages, 6 x 9
41 b/w illustrations, 16 tables, references, index
Paperback
Release Date:03 Jan 2023
ISBN:9780813080116
Hardcover
Release Date:03 Nov 2020
ISBN:9780813066622
The Valkyries’ Loom
The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
SERIES:
Cultural Heritage Studies
University Press of Florida
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.
Michèle Hayeur Smith is an archaeologist and research associate at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University.
