家庭是维京社会的基本单位。因此,想要了解维京社会,必须首先研究维京人的家庭,这是历史研究的一个不可分割的部分。斯堪的纳维亚社会是父权血缘社会,男性在社会生活中居于主导地位。因为是父权社会,法律赋予妇女的权利相当有限,总体上维京妇女是依从于男性的,这主要体现在婚姻、家庭生活和财产继承权等方面。从11世纪起,丹麦法律赋予未婚女性以一半财产的继承权,但是妇女的继承权要比男性的复杂:在财产继承时,女儿排在儿子后面,但是女儿又比她们父亲的兄弟有优先权。已婚妇女在分配 Family is the basic unit of Viking society. Therefore, to understand the society of Viking, we must first study the Vikings’ families, which is an integral part of historical research. Scandinavian society is the patriarchal blood society, men dominate in social life. Because it is a patriarchal society, the rights granted to women by law are rather limited. Generally speaking, women in Vikings are male-oriented, which is mainly reflected in the aspects of marriage, family life, inheritance of property, and so on. Since the 11th century, Danish law gave unmarried women half the inheritance of property, but the inheritance of women was more complicated than that of men: the daughters were ranked behind their sons when the property was inherited, but the daughters had priority over their dad’s brothers. Married women in distribution