Valkyries
Gone Medieval
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The Valkyries in Modern Tv Shows
Female warriors of course but also the valkyries have been depicted in dramas and certainly if we look at any tv show nowadays. I think they tend to pop up sort of in connection with whatever is going on politically and so they tell us a lot more about the people who are telling stories anew about them rather than necessarily the Viking age. They keep having an ideological function really.
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