Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga

• Main Author: Ruiter, Keith
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: De Gruyter 2020
• Subjects: 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; Theodore
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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 pro...