Femina by Janina Ramirez review a revelatory study of medieval womens lives
From a ferocious Norse warrior to an outrageously original autobiographer, the female characters changing our understanding of the past In 1878 a pile of ancient bones was pulled from the ground at Birka, near Stockholm, and confidently identified as the remains of a 10th-century Norse warrior. After all, the skeleton, known as Bj 581, was