Women during the Viking Age were living in a male-dominated society. But that didn’t mean they were not appreciated. The inscription found on a stone in Hassmyra, Sweden – the only verse found on a Swedish inscribed stone that commemorates a woman – certainly seems to show that “women’s work” was essential and valued:
The good farmer Holmgaut had this raised in memory of his wife Odindis.
A better housewife
will never come
to Hassmyra
who arranges the estate.
Red Balli carved
these runes.
She was a good sister
to Sigmund.
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