Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia /

Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia / / ed. by Roland Scheel.

Disputes lie at the heart of the sagas. Consequently, literary texts have been treated as sources of legal practice – narrations of law – while the sagas themselves and the handling of legal matters by the figures adhere to ‘laws of narration’. The volume addresses this intricate relationship betwee...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Burrows, Hannah,
Hahn, Daniela,
Hughes, Kyle,
Jakobsson, Ármann,
Orning, Hans Jacob,
Riisøy, Anne Irene,
Ruiter, Keith,
Sahm, Heike,
Scheel, Roland,
Starý, Jiří,
Teichert, Matthias,
Viðar Sigurðsson, Jón,
HerausgeberIn:
Scheel, Roland,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , 117
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 293 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Narrating Law and Laws of Narration: Introduction
  • Part A. Narrating Law: Legal Texts – Narrative Texts – Contexts
  • Chieftains and the Legal Culture in Iceland c. 1100–1260
  • Making King Hákon Great Again: Law, God, Morality and Power in Björgvin, 1223
  • Law Personified. The Ignored Climactic Speeches of Brennu-Njáls saga
  • Part B. Laws of Narration: Narratological Approaches
  • Court Poetry: Assemblies and Skaldic Verse
  • What is ‘Good Law’? Law as Communal Performance in the Íslendingasögur
  • Revenge or Settlement? Law and Feud in Early Sagas of Icelanders
  • Part C. Narrating Law: Discourses on Social Norms
  • Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga
  • Social and Diegetic Hierarchies in Cases of Thievery. A Study of Mǫðruvallabók
  • Part D. Narrating Law: Mythological Traditions
  • Feudal Law and Archaic Order: The Discussion of Different Social Systems in the Queens’ Dispute in the Nibelungenlied
  • History or Idea? The Legendary Laws of Old Norsemen
  • Vǫlundr – a Gateway into the Legal World of the Vikings
  • Týr, Fenrir and the Brísingamen. Tales of Law, Crime and Violence in Eddic Mythology and their Indo-European Subcontexts
  • Name Index
  • Place Index

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