Women and Weapons in the Viking World Tunic Named after the mighty gloves

Named after the mighty gloves that made it possible for Thor to grip and wield his hammer

Cindy Vallar

of how much we cannot know

Warrior motifs have throughout the ages instilled courage into the wearer and fear into his foes

which fittingly translates to "hidden behind frost"

Women and Weapons in the Viking World Tunic Named after the mighty glovesThe Viking Age (c. 750 1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia wreaked havoc across the European continent and when Norse merchants travelled to distant corners of the world in pursuit of slaves, silver, and exotic commodities. Until relatively recently, archaeologists and textual scholars had the tendency to weave a largely male dominated image of this pivotal period in world history,