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45851
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Title:
Making and Breaking Marriages: (b) Divorces from the Sagas, (i) How Gudrun Divorced Thorvald, (ii) Vigdis Divorces Thord Goddi
Source:
The Viking Age: A Reader. Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald. University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 115 - 120.
Description:
Article Type:
Translation
Subject
(See Also)
:
Divorce
Gudrun Osvifrsdottir (Literary Figure)
Laxdaoela saga
Marriage
Sagas
Vikings
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Scandinavia
Century:
13
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Related Resources:
(i) and (ii) are trans. A.A. Somerville, from Laxdœla saga, ed. Einar Ól. Sveinsson, Íslenzk fornrit V (Reykjavík, 1934), pp. 93-94, 30-37.
Author's Affiliation:
Brock University [McDonald and Somerville- Retired from the English Department]
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2020.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)