Ok lá þar at óvilja hennar : A Reconsideration of Sexual Violence in the Old Norse World
Despite the popularized image of the raping and pillaging Viking warrior, the culture of sexual violence in Old Norse society has remained surprisingly understudied. This article uses skaldic verses, a literary genre produced in Iceland and Norway, mainly from the ninth through the fourteenth centur...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/03631990211053220 2023-05-15T16:48:40+02:00 Ok lá þar at óvilja hennar : A Reconsideration of Sexual Violence in the Old Norse World Bell, Jacob 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03631990211053220 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03631990211053220 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/03631990211053220 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Family History page 036319902110532 ISSN 0363-1990 1552-5473 Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology journal-article 2021 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990211053220 2022-04-14T04:36:38Z Despite the popularized image of the raping and pillaging Viking warrior, the culture of sexual violence in Old Norse society has remained surprisingly understudied. This article uses skaldic verses, a literary genre produced in Iceland and Norway, mainly from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries, to suggest a reconsideration of sexual violence in the Old Norse world. It suggests that skaldic verses can help scholars discern a spatial and cultural geography of sexual violence against free men, women, and slaves, which suggests it was widespread and multidimensional and had ties to a pan-north Atlantic slave trade in the Viking Age. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland North Atlantic SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Norway Journal of Family History 036319902110532 |
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Despite the popularized image of the raping and pillaging Viking warrior, the culture of sexual violence in Old Norse society has remained surprisingly understudied. This article uses skaldic verses, a literary genre produced in Iceland and Norway, mainly from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries, to suggest a reconsideration of sexual violence in the Old Norse world. It suggests that skaldic verses can help scholars discern a spatial and cultural geography of sexual violence against free men, women, and slaves, which suggests it was widespread and multidimensional and had ties to a pan-north Atlantic slave trade in the Viking Age. |
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