Feud in the Icelandic Saga

Jesse L. Byock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

1993
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-08259-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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 Njals saga
10 Saga Narrative with Low Cluster Density
11 Conclusion

Appendixes
A. A Brief Account of Legal and Social Terms
B. Examples of Conflict
   Material Sources of Conflict
   Nonmaterial Sources of Conflict
C. Examples of Advocacy
   Brokerage
   Self-Advocacy
   Goading
   Information Passing
D. Examples of Resolution
   Arbitration
   Direct Resolution
   Rejected Resolution

Index
Maps

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.1993
Zusatzinfo	1 map
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-520-08259-1 / 0520082591
ISBN-13	978-0-520-08259-5 / 9780520082595
Zustand	Neuware