Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study

Marianne Hem Eriksen

Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study

Marianne Hem Eriksen

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Abstract

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets; foetuses set to avenge their fathers; and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial.

These are some of the realities uncovered by the first interdisciplinary study to focus on pregnancy in the Viking age, authored by myself, Kate Olley, Brad Marshall and Emma Tollefsen as part of the Body-Politics project.

Original language	English
Journal	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 2025

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Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study

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BODY-POLITICS: Personhood, sexuality and death in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

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Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study

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BODY-POLITICS: Personhood, sexuality and death in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

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