"How Do You Know If It Is Love or Lust?" On Gender, Status, and Violence in Old Norse Literature

"How Do You Know If It Is Love or Lust?" On Gender, Status, and Violence in Old Norse Literature

This article examines attitudes towards behaviour relating to women within Old Norse literature, focusing both on chivalric romances (translated and original, the riddarasögur) and the legendary sagas (fornaldarsögur), texts that were mostly written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The wr...

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Main Author: Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Milan 2017-05-01
Series:Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures
Subjects:
Old Norse
Medieval literature
violence
social status
gender
Online Access:http://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/article/view/6982

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http://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/article/view/6982

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