In The Waking of Angantyr, we have a scenario where a young girl named Hervor, daughter of Angantyr who is determined to visit her father’s mound alone no matter what it took. On …show more content…
Her father soon said, “Young girl, I declare you are not like most men”, which was his way of saying it’s not like it for a girl to be by the dangerous mounds and talking to the dead (p.271). However, she considered herself “man enough” because she had the willpower, she wasn’t forced to go amongst the dead but when you have a urge to do something you find all the ways to do so, regardless of gender.
In correlation to the switch of gender roles from The Waking of Angantyr, there is a indirect switch of gender roles in The Tale of Genji. The two switches on gender roles connect because they showed that strength nor bravery depends on the gender but just the person. Since, it was really hard to get people to believe that at the time, the authors of these two text create stories that portray women as brawny, as well as independent. Independence comes in with The Tale of Genji.
Genji was a prince who had a very complicated history with women, where the