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I was drawing Athena while watching the HBO series Rome. That image is still in progress. But then I wanted to do an Athena-like version of Freja. So this is a Vendel-era Freja. She wear a peplos-style garment. Her cape is red, beacause of roman-style ''blood won't show''. There are no direct evidence of women dressing like this, but there are some graves where it is possible that women have been burried with helmets, for example in the eastern burial mound in Gamla Uppsala. I write a bit about women and helmets during the Vendel era in my Master dissertation in archaeology, but as I said there is clear evidence.

If someone want to read my dissertation (it is written in swedish, it do have some images, but not enough and it has an abstract in english) it is available online at:
www.academia.edu/15840131/Vend…

Description
I was drawing Athena while watching the HBO series Rome. That image is still in progress. But then I wanted to do an Athena-like version of Freja. So this is a Vendel-era Freja. She wear a peplos-style garment. Her cape is red, beacause of roman-style ''blood won't show''. There are no direct evidence of women dressing like this, but there are some graves where it is possible that women have been burried with helmets, for example in the eastern burial mound in Gamla Uppsala. I write a bit about women and helmets during the Vendel era in my Master dissertation in archaeology, but as I said there is clear evidence.

If someone want to read my dissertation (it is written in swedish, it do have some images, but not enough and it has an abstract in english) it is available online at:
www.academia.edu/15840131/Vend…