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Else Roesdahl
Danish medievalist, archaeologist, author and educator
Else Roesdahl (born 26 February ) is a Danish archaeologist, historian and educator.
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She has mediated the history of the Vikings for most of her life, including coordination of notable exhibitions on the Viking Age and authoring several books on the subject. Roesdahl's books have been translated into several languages.[1][2]
Her popular book The Vikings was first published in English in [3]
Biography
Born in Sønderborg in southern Jutland, Roesdahl is the daughter of two medical doctors, Harald Eyvind Roesdahl and his wife Helene Refslund Thomsen.
She and her siblings were brought up in a home where education had a high priority. After matriculating from Sønderborg Statsskole in , she studied history and archaeology at Copenhagen University, graduating in [2]
In , she joined Aarhus University where she became a tenured lecturer in the newly formed Medieval Arc