A Sociological Approach to Childhood in the Icelandic Sagas

• Main Author: Katherine Vasquez 1992-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Víkinga- og miðaldafræði; Börn; Íslendingasögur; Félagsfræði; Grettir; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/32700

The few scenes that include children as social actors in Old Norse documentation display little explicit representation of childhood in the Medieval North. Instances of intergenerational interaction, such as Egill Skalagrimsson’s volatile relationship with his father as a potential prefiguration of...