Feud in the Icelandic Saga by Jesse L. Byock

Feud in the Icelandic Saga

Jesse L. Byock

300 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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