The Inner Exiles. Outlaws and Scapegoating Process in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar and Gísla saga Súrssonar

• Main Author: Poilvez, Marion, 1986-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Íslenskar bókmenntir; Miðaldafræði; Gísla saga Súrssonar; Grettis saga; Útilegumenn; Maurice; Grettir; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/10036

Was Icelandic outlawry exceptional? The legal and historical aspect of Icelandic outlawry has been widely studied and commented by scholars (Spoelstra, 1938), either by following indications from the Grágás or through the use of literary examples spread in the sagas (Frederic Amory, 1992). As main c...