[Gandur] Medieval Violence: Strengleikar this Thursday

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Strengleikar

Miðaldastofa Hugvísindastofnunar / Medieval seminar

 

Árnagarður 422

Thursday, September 6 at 16:15

 

The first Strengleikar seminar of the term is offered by Marco Mora,
Research Fellow in medieval history at the University of Bamberg:

 

 

Rules of violence in Norse saga literature 

 

Please join us for drinks afterwards (for ISK 400 - remember coins).

Our lecturer offers the following abstract:

Scandinavian Vikings are probably best known as ferocious warriors, whose
acts of violence caused a lot of suffering among European people. Therefore
it is not very surprising that in the Norse sagas of Icelanders, in which
feuding is one of the main themes, violence is a ubiquitous element. In my
lecture I will pursue e.g. the following questions: How do the sources
differ in regard to certain types of violence? What kind of violence was
socially tolerated and what condemned as shameful and dishonorable? In a
second step, I will analyze which methods may have been in use to regulate
violent behavior in order to make it socially acceptable.

-- 
Viðar Pálsson, PhD, Research Fellow (Grantee), Lecturer
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
University of Iceland
Árnagarður at Suðurgata
101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Work: +354 525 4010 <tel:%2B354%20525%204010> 
Cell: +354 820 7027 <tel:%2B354%20820%207027> 




-- 
Viðar Hreinsson
bókmenntafræðingur / literary historian
ReykjavíkurAkademían / The Reykjavik Academy
Hringbraut 121
107 Reykjavík - Iceland
(+354) 562 8563 (office) (+354) 552 3956 (home) / (+354) 844 8645 (cell)
vidar at akademia.is