Right to Life
The concept of abortion of one’s own child is abhorrent in Norse culture.
The concept of killing one’s own flesh and blood in the womb, and thus abortion, was utterly abhorrent in the Viking age and in Norse culture overall. There is in fact not one single documented case of a child being aborted in any text, runestone, reference or oral teaching, and there is no word in Norrœnt mál (Old Norse language) for abortion.
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