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Anglo Saxon Women's Roles

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The era consisting of Old English, epic poets, and Christianity was the era of Anglo-Saxon. During the Anglo-Saxon era, women played a variety of different roles in their society. The roles of women depended on the status they had in their community, the community being split into different classes “localhistories”. The majority responsibilities that women had to uphold was being a peace-weaver and having to complete household tasks. The women were considered submissive and having to play an active role in society. One of the main role played was a peace waver. By passing a cup around the men in the mead hall is a traditional duty (oldenglishteaching.arts.gla.ac.uk). The purpose of that was to bring peace to warring tribes, which isn’t always
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