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Seminar: Viking Age Women

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Conference
Country
Ireland
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Join us for a seminar exploring Viking women of Norway and Ireland with speakers and topics including….

Discovery of Viking female burial, Finglas – John Kavanagh, Icon Archaeology.

‘Significant Women. Female Viking Burials in Norway – Mari Arentz Østmo, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Oslo

‘Irish objects and the beginning of the Viking Age in Western Norway’ – Håkon Reiersen, Associate Professor, University of Stavanger.

‘Irish Church Metalwork in Norse Female Graves: crosiers and shrines’ – Griffin Murray, Senior Lecturer, University College Cork.

‘Riding the waves: women and their (otherworldly) horses’ – Kristin Armstrong-Oma, Professor of Archaeology, University of Stavanager & Ann Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad, Associate Professor, Museum of Cultural Heritage, University of Oslo.

Taking place in the Henry Roe Room, Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin on the 11th of November from 9.15am to 1.30pm.

Tickets must be pre-booked through our Eventbrite page, Book tickets here.