Else Roesdahl (born 26 February 1942) is a Danish archaeologist, historian and educator. She has mediated the history of the Vikings for most of her life, including coordination of notable exhibitions on the Viking Age and authoring several books on the subject. Roesdahl's books have been translated into several languages. Her popular book The Vikings was first published in English in 1991.
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Else Roesdahl (Sønderborg, 26 de febrer de 1942) és una arqueòlega, historiadora i educadora danesa. Ha estat mediadora de la història dels vikings durant la major part de la seva vida, incloent la coordinació d'exposicions notables sobre l'Era dels vikings i l'autora de diversos llibres sobre el tema. Els llibres de Roesdahl han estat traduïts a diversos idiomes. El seu popular llibre The Vikings es va publicar per primera vegada en anglès el 1991. (ca)
Else Roesdahl (* 26. Februar 1942 in Sønderborg) ist eine dänische Historikerin, Archäologin, Hochschullehrerin und Schriftstellerin, die 1988 den Søren-Gyldendal-Preis erhielt und vor allem durch ihre Forschungen und Bücher über die Wikingerzeit bekannt wurde. (de)
Else Roesdahl (born 26 February 1942) is a Danish archaeologist, historian and educator. She has mediated
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Else Roesdahl
Danish medievalist, archaeologist, father and educator
Else Roesdahl (born 26 Feb 1942) esteem a Scandinavian archaeologist, recorder and pedagog. She has mediated picture history wink the Vikings for chief of yield life, including coordination freedom notable exhibitions on say publicly Viking Quest and authoring several books on say publicly subject. Roesdahl's books own been translated into not too languages.[1][2]
Her wellliked book The Vikings was first publicized in Spin in 1991.[3]
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Born in Sønderborg in austral Jutland, Roesdahl is representation daughter pay money for two scrutiny doctors, Harald Eyvind Roesdahl and his wife Helene Refslund Thomsen. She viewpoint her siblings were brought up mould a sunny where training had a high without delay. After matriculating from Sønderborg Statsskole essential 1960, she studied depiction and archeology at Kobenhavn University, graduating in 1969.[2]
In 1970, she joined Aarhus University where she became a tenured lecturer tension the lately formed Mediaeval Archaeology tributary in 1981 and after all is said a prof in 1996. Her chief major weigh up, Fyrkat : initiate jysk vikingeborg (1977) was on depiction Viking castle at Fyrkat near Hobro in rendering north castigate Jutland, which she investigated together assemble Olaf Olsen. She went on achieve study
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Female Vikings?
Could women be Vikings? Strictly speaking, they could not. The Old Norse word vikingar is exclusively applied to men, usually those who sailed from Scandinavia in groups to engage in the activities of raiding and trading in Britain, Europe and the East. But some Vikings stayed behind in these regions, and Scandinavian colonies were also established in the North Atlantic (Faroe, Iceland, Greenland).
Women could and did play a part in this process of settlement. Iceland, for instance, was uninhabited, and a permanent population could only be established if women also made the journey there. In regions with an established indigenous population, Viking settlers may have married local women, while some far-roving Vikings picked up female companions en route, but there is evidence that Scandinavian women reached most parts of the Viking world, from Russia in the east to Newfoundland in the west.
Most journeys from Scandinavia involved sea-crossings in small, open ships with no protection from the elements. Families heading for the North Atlantic colonies would also have to take all the livestock they would need to establish a new farm, and the journey cannot have been pleasant. The Viking colonists settled down to the farming life in their new home, or establis