Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 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.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Divorce Gudrun Osvifrsdottir (Literary Figure) Laxdaoela saga Marriage Sagas Vikings
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  • 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]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)