Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45901
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  • Title: Unmanly Men: (a) Deadly Insults from Grágás, (b) A Flyting between Sinfjotli and Gudmund, (c) Egil in Old Age
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 91 - 96.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Femininity Insults in Literature Law Literature- Verse Masculinity Sagas Vikings Violence
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  • Geographic Area: Scandinavia
  • Century: 10- 11- 12- 13- 14
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  • Related Resources: (A) is trans. Andrew Dennis, Peter Foote, and Richard Perkins, The Laws of Early Iceland: Grágás II (University of Manitoba Press, 2000), p. 354. (B) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from The First Poem about Helgi the Slayer of Hunding (Helgakviða Hundingsbana I), in Eddukœði II, ed. Jónas Kristjansson and Vésteinn Ólason, Íslenzk fornrit (Reykjavík, 2014) pp. 254-55, stanzas 37-44. (C) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, ed. Sigurður Nordal, Íslenzk fornrit II (Reykjavík, 1933), pp. 294-98.
  • 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)