Speaking about divorce in the viking age and under what circumstances it was allowed. My online shop(Books/Apparel/Training gear) https://norse-combat-sportswear.myshopify.com/ Art/Logo by https://www.instagram.com/chrisberg_art/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thormmadj/ Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@norsemagicand... The watershed in a Viking woman’s life was when she got married. Up until then she lived at home with her parents. In the sagas we can read that the woman “got married”, whilst a man “married”. But after they were married the husband and the wife “owned” each other. There is believed to have been a hidden moral in the sagas in relation to a woman’s choice of husband. The family probably wanted to participate in the decision-making. When an attempt was made to woo a woman, the father did not need to ask his daughter’s opinion about the interested male. In cases in which the girl opposed the family’s wishes, the sagas describe how this often ended badly. The woman’s reputation and place in society was connected to that of her husband. The sagas often describe how various women compete over who has the best husband. Young girls obviously knew what to look for in a prospective husband. f the marriage did not work, then the wife and husband could divorce. When the Spanish-Arabic traveller al-Tartushi visited Hedeby in the 900s he was surprised to hear that women had the right to divorce if they wished. The sagas involve many divorced women and widows who marry again. The Icelandic sagas describe a large number of divorce rules, which are evidence of a quite advanced legal system. The woman could, for example, demand a divorce if her husband settled in a new country whilst on his travels, but only if the man neglected to go to bed with her for three years. The aim of this was to secure the wife against a life of loneliness. The most typical grounds for divorce were, however, sudden poverty in the man’s family or violence on the part of the husband. If a man struck his wife three times she could demand a divorce. Female infidelity was punished hard, whilst men were able to bring various mistresses into the home. However, the official housewife kept authority over the new women in the household. We do not know how frequent divorces were in the Viking period, but the rights to divorce and inheritance indicate that women had an independent judicial status. After divorce, babies and small children generally went with their mothers, whilst older children were divided up amongst their parents’ families, depending upon their wealth and status. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OVpD8FAB8Y

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Sources Below The Vikings regularly attacked coastal regions due to the difficult nature of defending such regions, as well as utilising rivers and stolen horses to raid deeper inland by the mid 9th century. Online shop www.norseimports.com Insta https://www.instagram.com/thormmadj/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/norsemagicandbeliefs Sources Grágás Víglundar saga Guðmundar saga dýra Þorgils saga ok Hafliða Haralds saga gráfeldar Þórðar saga hreðu Kjalnesinga saga Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar Vatnsdaela saga Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar Skylitzes Chronicle Króka-Refs saga Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar Knýtlinga saga Hrólfs saga kraka Despite reports since the 5th Century of the presence of seafaring Germanic peoples both in the Black Sea and in Frisia, and archaeological evidence of earlier contact with the British Isles, the Viking Age proper is characterized by extensive raiding, entering history by being recorded in various annals and chronicles by their victims."The Annals of St. Bertin and the Annals of Fulda contain East and West Frankish records of Viking attacks, as does Regino of Prum's Chronicle which was written as a history of the Carolingian Empire in its final years. Initially, the Vikings limited their attacks to "hit-and-run" raids. However, they soon expanded their operations. In the years 814–820, Danish Vikings repeatedly sacked the regions of Northwestern France via the Seine River and also repeatedly sacked monasteries in the Bay of Biscay via the Loire River. Eventually, the Vikings settled in these areas and turned to farming. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXCJPTE6RxI