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11th-century Swedish women | HearLore
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11th-century Swedish women
Gunhild of WendenThietmar of Merseburg wrote his chronicle in the early 11th century. He described a daughter of Mieszko I of Poland who married Sweyn Forkbeard.
Gerlög and IngaThe farm Snottsta still stands in the same spot 1000 years after the rune stones were made. Gerlög and her daughter Inga lived as two powerful women in…
EdlaEdla lived during the Viking Age, spanning the 10th and 11th centuries. Tradition holds she was the daughter of a Lechitic tribal chief.