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advocacy
arbitration
Author_Jesse L. Byock
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conflict
direct resolution
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family sagas
feud
feud chains
feud clusters
feudeme
folklore
goading
iceland
icelandic literature
information passing
medieval
medieval icelandic society
medieval social thought
mythology
narrative structure
old icelandic saga
regulation of conflict
rejected resolution
resolution
scandinavia
scandinavian literature
self advocacy
sturlunga saga compilation
travel
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780520082595
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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.
Jesse Byock is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of Medieval Iceland (California, 1988) and translator of The Saga of the Volsungs (California, 1990).
