Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45852
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  • Title: Women's Work: (a) Housework in Laxdale Saga
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 120 - 121.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Housework Laxdaoela saga Murder in Literature Sagas Sexual Division of Labor Vikings
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  • Geographic Area: Scandinavia
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: (a) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Laxdœla saga, ed. Einar Ól. Sveinsson, Íslenzk fornrit V (Reykjavík, 1934), pp. 154-55, 167-68.
  • 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)