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Viking Women: Evolution through Literature into Current Culture

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This page examines what culture has preferred to think Viking women were like. If you are interested in more information about real viking women visit here: Real Women of the Viking Age

 

 

 

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Examples of how Viking Women have been represented in  popular culture

 

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     This is a ten minute video which depicts Wonder Woman beating the Viking Queen                                      This is a very funny video warning those who aren't used to Viking women how they will

     (Sorry if I ruined for you)                                                                                                                          act if you take them out to dinner. The very attractive girl seems completely normal until

     What interests me about this video is how the "Viking Queen is show. She                                                    the course comes, which appears to be half a head of a lamb/sheep. Still appearing very

     is a burly woman, much larger than our beloved Wonder Woman. She is                                                     attractive, she starts biting at the head and pulling at the skin with her front teeth then

     wearing a fur-lined bikini and boots, which seems to be all the rage for Viking                                             proceeds to suck the eye between her lips at the bewilderment of her date. She finishes

     women character. She is wearing a horned helmet that, I'm sorry, Vikings                                                    off the show with a nice burp.

     did not wear. This video is a representation of a very stereotypical picture of 

     how we understand Viking women today.                                                                                                  Other than being quite funny this video shows another stereotype of how we envision

                                                                                                                                                                   Viking women. She is very attractive but then begins to act brutish and vulgar, which

                                                                                                                                                                   feeds into the idea of Viking women being extremely hard to tame. 

 

 

 

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      One of the most famous Viking women movies is Viking Women and the Sea Serpent                                    This movie is mainly for my class than anything because it makes references

      where a group of women go out looking for their men who haven't returned home.                                    to many characters we have read about in the Sagas.

      Their boat gets washed ashore where a select few of the more attractive women are                                 

      captured by the same people who have their men.                                                                                    What I found most interesting in this clip is when a man buys his wife a female slave.

                                                                                                                                                                   Right afterwards, the Viking Princess decides she would also like to go back to the 

      I love this clip because it shows everything we love about the idea of "Viking Women."                                village with a slave of her own. She chooses a man and then goes back to her village

      A Prince gets separated from the group and has a boar on his tail. He acts as if the                                    so both can present their slaves. What this shows is the likeness between Viking men

      pig could seriously injure him, but in come the calvary! A very attractive busty blonde                                  and women in popular culture, the only difference between the two is that the women

      comes sweeping in on her faithful steed and skewers the boar, saving the Prince. So not                             are beautiful!!!!

      only do Viking Women know how to take care of wild animals, they don't need "Prince

      Charming." The woman saves the Prince and it could only be accomplished by a

      strong, untamed, beautiful woman...a Viking!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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