Valkyrie

Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize. Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. The fateful agency of women is widespread in Norse sources. Valkyrie. introduces readers to the diverse and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too.