Feud in the Icelandic Saga

Author/Contributor(s):	Byock, Jesse L
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	03/09/1993
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society-the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict-is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.