#medievaltwitter where/from who might i find the most up-to-date work on valkyries? i'm totally lost when it comes to norse stuff
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omg don't get me started. witches are the same. the amount of really, really bad "feminist" scholarship (which seems to all derive from the assumption that male clerics knew wtf rural women were up to which... yeah, very feminist) is astounding
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My friend, who wrote her PhD on seidr, pivoted to beer and brewing history and the misconceptions about alewives being witches or something is pretty common.
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Like okay if you want to pray to Badb the war goddess then by all means for ffs I just want some scholarly discussion on this stuff. Unfortunately, looking at “pagan” Irish beliefs (whatever you want to call them) is rather passé in my field these days.
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Acknowledging that maybe some non-Christian belief systems survived in some form through text invites a whole cadre of people calling you a nativist so that’s fun.
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