Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45899
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  • Title: Children: (a) Young Grettir Helps around the Farm, (b) Children Mimic Adults, (c) The Child Is Mother of the Woman, (d) Young Egil Plays for Keeps
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 337 - 342.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Boys Children Education Family Girls Housework Mothers Parents Vikings Violence
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  • Geographic Area: Scandinavia
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: (a) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar, ed. Guðni Jónsson, Íslenzk fornrit VII (Reykjavík, 1936), pp. 37-41. (b) and (c) are trans. A.A. Somerville, from Brennu-Njáls saga, ed. Einar Ól. Sveinsson, Íslenzk fornrit XIV (Reykjavík, 1954), pp. 28-29, 6-7. (d) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, ed. Sigurður Nordal, Íslenzk fornrit III (Reykjavík, 1933), pp. 98-101.
  • 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)