The Role of Honour in Egils saga

The aim of this text is to assess the role that honour plays in a long prose text composed in Iceland c.1220-1240, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar. First, we present the main theoretical and historiographical views on honour, both as a general concept and applied specifically to the Icelandic Middle-Ag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barreiro, Santiago Francisco
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. Zakładu Historii Średniowiecza Instytutu Historii
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/44816