Did women really have so much power in Viking society - did they fight, pillage and rape alongside men?

Did women really have so much power in Viking society - did they fight, pillage and rape alongside men?

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Yes, a blonde Viking goddess entered my great-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g--gg--g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g- gramps village and raped him, thus my family lineage began.

no

I believe 100% m80.

Archaeologist here. Short answer: Yes. Long answer: The dildos the vikings traditionally carried in their anal cavities could also be conveniently used as strap-ons by their females. Tl;dr vikings are teh gay.

This explains why Swedes are such raging homosexuals.

its hard to say, but i believe women had it worse under christianity. the sagas and norse religion functioned as a way to tell of heroes and symbols to look up to. the females had strong roles in these tales. this could imply that their role in society were more than that of a "vessel that gave birth to jesus"

no. they were housewives, roasting pigs and making wine for their men to consume when they were done being fucking awesome pillagers.

I've heard that viking women could fuck other men when their husband was away for a long period of time

Cuck

Am I being memed? I don't even know anymore.

Traditionally women in nordic culture have had a very strong standing, but they were of course seen as weaker than men, physically. Because they are, it's no secret.
After americanized feminism came into play, all that changed. Now they're brainwashed into thinking they're just as good as men in every aspect.

Women were seen as equal inside the home, but in politics they weren't rulers. As it should be.

>Archaeologist here.

I have a large bone for you to examine

yes you are, retard

The same way you could have legally killed a man if you wanted to own what he does. I don't remember it exactly but they had some pretty strange laws by our standards.

Womyn can't rape you sexist bigot!
Rape=White CIS heterosexual male

That's why they weren't more than a stupid bunch of mongrels pillagers then.

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No.

"viking" society is not a thing. There were Scandinavian societies composed of people who were overwhelmingly farmers and fisherman and shit. A small number of those people organized (generally private) raiding parties seeing as there weren't a lot of opportunities for wealth at the time. As they had good knowledge of seafaring and a large number of ships, they tended to be particularly successful at this, and developed quite a reputation.

Nope

>Did women really have so much power in Viking society - did they fight, pillage and rape alongside men?
no
in times of absurd child death rates women not doing breeding - not to mention women on the battlefield - is a big no-no if your civilisation plans to survive

women fought only when death was the only alternative, but most of the times they simply split their legs for the victors

found some excerpts here if you are interested

hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/women.htm

>Hildigunnur incited her uncle Flosi to avenge the killing of her husband Höskuldr by flinging her husband's bloody cloak onto Flosi's shoulders. Clotted blood from the cloak rained down on Flosi. He responded, "Cold are the counsels of women." Flosi later took revenge for Höskuldr's death by burning Njáll and his family in their home.

found also one story in the saga about a woman helping out in battle

>Now Helgi takes a run and rushes up the crags at Gisli. He hurried to meet him, and brandished his sword, and smote him on the loins, and exit him in two at the waist; and each half of the man fell down from the crags, each on its own side. Eyjolf got up in another place, and there Auda met him, and smites him on the arm with her club so that it lost all strength, and down he topples back again. Then Gisli spoke and said:

>"Long ago I knew I was well wedded, though I never knew I was so well wedded as I am.

Some archaeologists found a burial site with about 13 bodies where a couple of the women were buried with swords.

That's the only evidence for this tumblr level 'viking women were badasses' meme

One thing is:

>women in charge of money and the village when the men are gone raiding
>women have a say in some matters
>rape of free viking women is punishable by death

Another thing is:

>fighting along side men
>IM THE EARL NOW
>MY HO ENTOURAGE

Guess which one is made up.

if vikings were not even close enough to being badasses, imagine how much of badass their women were

they were good sailors, alright, but sailros only, not even good at naval battles.