Volsung Essay Quiz
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Q1.) How are Viking families portrayed? How much power did women have in these families? How is the treatment of children described?
A1.) The Vikings didn't put much into their families; they raised their male children to be strong warriors. Their daughters were raised to have sons, so they could be trained as warriors. The women of the Vikings didn't have much power; they mainly stayed home and took care of the kids. The children of the Viking were made either to be warriors for the males, or for the women, to have children that become warriors. The males were supposed to be strong, and if they weren't they wouldn't last long in the Viking world, like in the text, when Sigmund discovered that the child Signy brought him was weak, Signy told him "Then take the boy and kill him...