Feud in the Icelandic Saga

ISBN: 9780520082595

³ö°æÉç: University of California Press

³ö°æÄê: 1993-03-09

Ò³Êý: 300

¶¨¼Û: USD 26.95

×°Ö¡: Paperback

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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.