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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Family sagas"”.
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… literary sources, especially the Icelandic Family sagas, not only cover the conversion of Iceland, the ensuing conflicts and tensions between paganism and Christianity, and pagan survivals under Christianity, they also include many descriptions of pagan religion and pre-Christian society in …
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The Duality of Textiles
… have drastic consequences, as revealed in the sagas. Both the family sagas and the legendary sagas of Iceland use clothing and textiles within their narratives. Textiles are also inexorably linked to the roles of women, who historically have been the makers and weavers of textiles. Women and …
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An Investigation of Advice Giving in the Íslendingasögur
… practices depicted in the *Íslendingasögur* (Sagas of the Icelanders), especially how they form, structure, and alter relationships. It argues that Icelandic society as depicted in these sagas benefits from advice-giving norms, which can facilitate peacekeeping, alliance and even authority. …
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Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur: motivation, provocation and characterisation
… between characterisation and structure in the sagas.By drawing attention to characters that I term narrative triggers, I offer a way of reading the sagas that relies both on the narrative conventions of tradition and on the less predictable, personal interactions between the cast of any given …
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The Classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur
… inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are portrayed as being less civilized than the Icelanders themselves. This thesis explores the ways in which the Íslendingasögur emphasize this relative barbarity through descriptions of diet, material culture, …