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Feud in the Icelandic Saga

By Jesse L. Byock

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1982
ISBN
0520045645, 9780520045644
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13137618 bytes)
Pages
XX+294\322
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-02-24 00:43:52

Description

Jesse Byock is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society — the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict — is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the "Sturlunga saga" compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.

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