Lisa Hannett

Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world. How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings—not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this groundbreaking work, Lisa Hannett lifts the veil on...

She remembers the war, the first in the world ... Three times they burned the one thrice-born, often, over again; yet she lives still. The women of Norse mythology reflect very human concerns about the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. They embody a place where ideas about masculine and feminine, wife and warrior, domestic and the otherworldly,...