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Feud in the Icelandic Saga

Jesse L Byock author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:19th Mar '93

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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.

ISBN: 9780520082595

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm

Weight: 363g

300 pages