"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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University of Milan
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures |
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| Online Access: | http://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/article/view/6982 |