“Bellyfull.” “Unlight.” “A woman walking not alone.” These are all terms once used to describe pregnancy in the Viking Age, which has been a long-neglected subject in the study of Viking history. Now, ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers—and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the realities ...

Marianne Hem Eriksen leads the BODY-POLITICS project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no.