Vikings – History in the Margins

Nancy Marie Brown and The Real Valkyrie

By Pamela | August 31, 2021 |

If you’ve been hanging out here in the Margins for a while, you know that I am fascinated by the continuing archaeological discoveries of ancient women warriors. Sometimes they are genuinely new discoveries. Sometimes they are a result of someone taking a closer look or asking new questions about existing. remains. This trend started in…

New Discoveries, Or At Least New Questions, and Women Warriors

By Pamela | July 30, 2019 |

Last week a news report from Livescience.com popped up in my Google alerts. (1) Archaeologist Leszek Gardeła has concluded that the remains of a woman buried with an axe on the Danish island of Langeland was not “a Viking”. (2) Both the form of the burial and the style of the axe suggest that she…

Telling Women’s History: three Questions and an Answer with Nancy Marie Brown

By Pamela | March 18, 2019 |

Nancy Marie Brown and I first made contact when I was poking around the medieval world, working on the question of how Islam kept the flame of classical civilization alive and helped shape the culture of the West. That book never saw the light of day, but Nancy and I stayed in touch. We finally…