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> [While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-macgregor/while-there-are-few-records-of-viking-women-participating-in-battle/)

[Neil MacGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-macgregor/)

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> [Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-byrne/viking-women-were-able-to-rule-kingdoms-divorce-husbands-own-land-and/)

[Gabriel Byrne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-byrne/)

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