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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Feud in the Icelandic Saga
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520082595
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780520341012
Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Feud in Saga Narrative: Its Roots in Icelandic Society
- 3. The Syntax of Narrative Elements
- 4. Units of Travel and Information and the Feudeme of Conflict
- 5. The Feudeme of Advocacy
- 6. The Feudeme of Resolution
- 7. Feud Clusters and Feud Chains
- 8. The Importance of Land in Saga Feud
- 9. Two Sets of Feud Chains in Njáls saga
- 10. Saga Narrative with Low Cluster Density
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix A. A Brief Account of Legal and Social Terms
- Appendix B. Examples of Conflict
- Appendix C. Examples of Advocacy
- Appendix D. Examples of Resolution
- Index
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