How to do things with gifts: Gjafa-Refs þáttr and Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka

• Published in: SIGNUM - Revista da ABREM
• Main Author: Barreiro, Santiago Francisco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Estudos Medievais
• Subjects: Gifts; Medieval; Iceland; Short Stories; Islândia Medieval; Presentes; Contos; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.2; Argentina; Boa; Saavedra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/41243

The aim of this article is to assess the ideology of two short storiesfocused on gift-giving and composed in medieval Iceland: Gjafa-Refs þáttr and Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka. Our hypothesis is that the texts, while sharing a similar narrative motif, represent different ideological stances that can be...