Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 29903
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  • Title: Hoskuld Buys a Slave
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 14.  University of Toronto Press, 2010.  Pages 38 - 40. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 38-39.
  • Description: The Saga of the People of Laxdale contains this account of Hoskuld, a chieftain in Iceland, who goes to Norway. While at a fair he bargains with a merchant in order to purchase an enslaved woman as his concubine.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Concubines Sagas Slaves Vikings
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  • Geographic Area: Scandanavia
  • Century: 9- 10- 11, 13
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  • Year of Publication: 2010.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781442601475 (hbk.) ; 9781442601482 (pbk.)