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Record Number:
45855
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Sturluson , Snorri
Contributor(s):
Title:
Same-Sex Encounters: (a) Penitential of Saint Thorlak, (b) Civil Penalties in Early Norwegian Law, (c) Njal Gives a Garment to Flosi, (d) King Harold Gormsson and the Land-Spirits, (e) Gisli Sursson Fights Skeggi the Berserk
Source:
The Viking Age: A Reader. Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald. University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 132 - 137.
Description:
Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar, from which (d) King Harold Gormsson and the Land-Spirits is taken, has been attributed to the author Snorri Sturluson.
Article Type:
Translation
Subject
(See Also)
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Homosexuality
Insults in Literature
Law
Masculinity
Sagas
Vikings
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Scandinavia
Century:
12- 13
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Abstract:
Related Resources:
(a) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Diplomatarium Islandicum, Hinu Íslenzka Bókmentafèlagi (Copenhagen, 1857), vol. 1, pp. 240-44. (b) is trans. Laurence Marcellus Larson, The Earliest Norwegian Laws: Being the Gulathing Law and the Frostathing Law (Columbia University Press, 1935), p. 60. (c) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Brennu-Njáls saga, ed. Einar Ól. Sveinsson, Íslenzk fornrit XII (Reykjavík, 1954), pp. 312-314. (d) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Snorri Sturluson Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar, in Heimskringla, ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson Íslenzk fornrit XXVI-XXVIII (Reykjavík, 2002), vol. 1, pp. 270-72. (e) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Gisli Sursson’s Saga (Gísla saga Súrssonar), in Vestfirðinga sögur, ed. Björn K. Þórólfsson and Guðni Jónsson, Íslenzk fornrit VI (Reykjavík, 1943), pp. 8-11.
Author's Affiliation:
Brock University [McDonald and Somerville- Retired from the English Department]
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2020.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)