Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga
A common thread running through the present volume is the consistent highlighting of the flexibility, negotiation, and pragmatism that is so apparent in narrated descriptions of law, legal norms, and legal practice in the medieval Scandinavian milieu. However, developments in the social sciences pro...
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ftunnottinghamrr:oai:nottingham-repository.worktribe.com:2112905 2023-05-15T16:50:59+02:00 Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga Ruiter, Keith 2020-01-31 https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/file/2112905/1/Keith%20Ruiter%20%20Berserks%20Behaving%20Badly%20%20For%20RIS%20Deposit https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2112905 unknown De Gruyter https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2112905 Pagination 171-184 https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/file/2112905/1/Keith%20Ruiter%20%20Berserks%20Behaving%20Badly%20%20For%20RIS%20Deposit 9783110661811 openAccess Norms Normativity Berserk Eyrbyggja saga Old Norse saga Snorri law honour medieval Scandinavia Iceland Arts & Humanities - English Language and Literature Arts & Humanities - History Social Sciences - Anthropology & Developmental Studies Centre for the Study of the Viking Age Book Chapter acceptedVersion 2020 ftunnottinghamrr 2022-10-13T22:13:21Z A common thread running through the present volume is the consistent highlighting of the flexibility, negotiation, and pragmatism that is so apparent in narrated descriptions of law, legal norms, and legal practice in the medieval Scandinavian milieu. However, developments in the social sciences provide inspiration for scholars of medieval Scandinavia to go further still and undertake a more holistic examination of medieval Scandinavian normativity. After all, it has long been remarked by scholars such as Preben Meulengracht Sørensen and Theodore Andersson that particularly the Íslendingasögur often fixate on situations where competing values – law and honour, for example – collide to manifold literary effects. Studies such as these pick up on an under-researched tension evident in the sagas between competing normative expectations and, in light of the progress made in the social sciences, medieval Scandinavian concepts of normativity should be explored more holistically. In this vein, the following paper makes a close reading of a short vignette in Eyrbyggja saga – the attempted forced marriage between the Swedish berserk Halli and Víga-Styrr’s daughter Ásdís – exploring the ways that various norms and normative expectations are deliberately manipulated by the characters in question to further their own social goals in the narrative. Book Part Iceland University of Nottingham: Repository@Nottingham Theodore ENVELOPE(-62.450,-62.450,-64.933,-64.933) |
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A common thread running through the present volume is the consistent highlighting of the flexibility, negotiation, and pragmatism that is so apparent in narrated descriptions of law, legal norms, and legal practice in the medieval Scandinavian milieu. However, developments in the social sciences provide inspiration for scholars of medieval Scandinavia to go further still and undertake a more holistic examination of medieval Scandinavian normativity. After all, it has long been remarked by scholars such as Preben Meulengracht Sørensen and Theodore Andersson that particularly the Íslendingasögur often fixate on situations where competing values – law and honour, for example – collide to manifold literary effects. Studies such as these pick up on an under-researched tension evident in the sagas between competing normative expectations and, in light of the progress made in the social sciences, medieval Scandinavian concepts of normativity should be explored more holistically. In this vein, the following paper makes a close reading of a short vignette in Eyrbyggja saga – the attempted forced marriage between the Swedish berserk Halli and Víga-Styrr’s daughter Ásdís – exploring the ways that various norms and normative expectations are deliberately manipulated by the characters in question to further their own social goals in the narrative. |
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