5/28/2023 0 Comments The half drowned king review![]() ![]() While it’s impossible to know exactly how women-or anyone-acted, thought, and felt over a thousand years ago, real Viking women influenced the oral literature of their age and the written literature that records it. Designating the word “princess” an insult reflects an ambivalence about femininity, and so too does the earliest Viking literature. My parents were drawing from a long history of literature about Viking women: strong and capable, independent while their men were away, and even acting as warriors when circumstances required. ![]() ![]() Though I think my parents would have been horrified if we picked up swords and began dueling with each other, we still had to carry firewood, cross-country ski for miles, and do our chores without complaining. A princess was someone who couldn’t sleep when a pea was placed under her stack of mattresses, while my sister and I were descended from Vikings and were expected to act like it. “Princess” was an insult in my family when I was growing up. ![]()
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