The Things we Hold Queer(ed): Questioning the Ownership of Viking Loot
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A significant proportion of Viking loot ultimately arrived in the hands of women. Typically,considerations of female usage of loot hinge on heteronormative narratives of a raider bringing home loot as a gift for his wife. In whatever form these objects took, they would serve as an exotic trinket as well as a masculine war prize.
I will question this narrative, exploring alternative modes of loot acquisition, and highlighting how object symbolism might be subverted under female ownership. Focusing on the Melhus Reliquary as an example of an Insular object used by a woman in a possible ritual setting, I will separate the female usage of loot from the traditionally masculine narratives to which it is usually attached, considering how women’s active ownership of loot might have queered the ‘masculine’ narratives and receptions of raiding.
Tonicha Upham (University of Iceland)
TAG Deva 2018
Session: Queer Frontier: LGBTQ Research and Experiences in Archaeology
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