Nice guys finish last: Emotional Leaders and Political action in Selected Íslendingasogur

• Main Authors: Barreiro, Santiago Francisco, del Valle, Julián Juan Martín
• Other Authors: Borislawski, Rafal, Bemben, Alicja
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge
• Subjects: Emociones; Política; Sagas; Islandia; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.2; Argentina; Saavedra; Ketill
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/173995

The Íslendingasögur -the sagas about early Icelanders- are texts composed mostly during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that depict, among other things, a series of prominent men as exemplary moral figures and highly honourable individuals that, nevertheless, fail in their leadership aims. O...