Book Club | Old Norse Women

Old Norse Women with Lisa Bennett

Join us for the first session of the Library’s Book Club series for 2026, featuring Flinders University writers and designed to support wellbeing through the joy of leisure reading.

This series creates a relaxed and welcoming space for staff and students to connect, share ideas and explore reading for enjoyment.

Each session includes:

• curated reading lists
• guided discussion led by academic staff
• light refreshments and small giveaways

This April, join Flinders University writer and academic Lisa Bennett for a discussion exploring Old Norse Women.

From myth and saga to contemporary retellings and screen adaptations, this session will consider how Viking women have been represented, imagined and reinterpreted across literature and popular culture.

📚 Bring along a book, character or story that features a Viking or “shieldmaiden”-type figure or simply come along to listen and join the conversation.

📖 Discover and borrow from the Library’s Leisure Reading Collection, curated to support reading for enjoyment.

🌱 This event is supported by the Wellbeing and Campus Activation Project, which funds initiatives that foster wellbeing, inclusion, connection and a vibrant campus culture at Flinders University.

Event details

📅 Date: 30 April

🕛 Time: 12.00pm – 1.30 pm
📍 Location: Central Library, Level 1
🎟 Register here: Eventbrite

👥 Audience: Open to staff and students

📌 Accessibility & dietary requirements: Please use the registration form to let us know of any accessibility requirements, allergies or food intolerances.

About the speaker

Associate Professor Lisa Bennett is a literary scholar at Flinders University whose work explores gender, narrative and cultural representation across literature and popular culture. She specialises in the Viking Age, as well as genre fiction and creative practice.

She is the author of Viking Women: Life and Lore and the forthcoming Yet She Lives: Fierce and Fantastical Women of Norse Mythology (2026), a vivid retelling of the epic lives of mythological Norse women.

Lisa is also the co-author of Story Thinking and the Real-world Applications of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing and, writing as Lisa L. Hannett, is an award-winning author of multiple short story collections, a novel, and over 80 speculative fiction works.