Overview
This study demonstrates how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society - the channelling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict - is reflected in the narrative of the sagas. It explores how the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.
- | By (Author): Jesse L. Byock (Author)
- | Publisher: University of California Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 09, 1993
- | Country of Publication: United States
- | Number of Pages: 300 pages
- | Language: NULL
- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-10: 0520082591
- | ISBN-13: 9780520082595
