Audur G. Magnusdottir

Cited In:

  • Magnusdottir, Audur G. “Women and Sexual Politics.” In The Viking World, by Stephen Brink, & Neil Price, ed. New York: Routledge Press, 2008: 40-48.

Used For:

  • Magnusdottir’s article is used to provide a secondary source that helps to illustrate what made concubinage a preferable form of marriage during the Viking Age. More specifically speaking, her research will be used to help illustrate how a Scandinavian man needed to be amongst the top percentage of his contemporaries to obtain a wife. This information is used to help establish cultural and economic motivators behind the mercenary phenomenon.