Lords and Literature: The Icelandic Sagas as Political and Social Instruments

@article{Kristinsson2003LordsAL,
  title={Lords and Literature: The Icelandic Sagas as Political and Social Instruments},
  author={Axel Kristinsson},
  journal={Scandinavian Journal of History},
  year={2003},
  volume={28},
  pages={1 - 17}
}
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Memory of Iron Object Rhetoric and Collective Memory in Laxdæla saga
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Digital Mapping and the Narrative Stratigraphy of Iceland
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The Broken Body in Eleventh to Thirteenth-Century Anglo-Scandinavian Literature
  • M. Firth
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    Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • 2019
Anglo-Scandinavian literary and legal texts give evidence of two cultures which shared similar attitudes to punitive acts of violence; whether as literary trope or legislative recourse, deliberate…
Children of a One-Eyed God: Impairment in the Myth and Memory of Medieval Scandinavia
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An Ill-Tempered Axe for an Ill-Tempered Smith TheGift of King Eiríkr blóðøx to Skallagrímr Kveldúlfsson in Egils
Current studies on, and translations of, Egils saga Skallagrímssonar approach weapons, in particular their metallurgical composition and forged details, with little reflection of recent advances in…
The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason
Arnaldur Indriðason’s Erlendur novels are popular crime fiction stories set in Iceland. Detective Erlendur Sveinsson’s team deals with serious crimes, murders, and missing persons. Their cases are…
Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga
This study analyses the way in which the thirteenth-century Egils saga Skallagrimssonar presented the migration to Iceland of Egill’s father Grimr and grandfather Ulfr, and the creation of a…
Re)visions of Royal Luck in the Sagas of Óláfr Tryggvason
This article examines the depictions of royal luck in three sagas of Olafr Tryggvason. In existing scholarship Old Norse concepts of luck defy clear definition, having been read variously as…
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