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  1. Feud in the Icelandic Saga
    Published: [1982]; ©1982
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    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... more

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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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

     

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