IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 331: Conflict, Law, and Leadership in the Icelandic Sagas, II
Monday 1 July 2013, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław / School of Humanities, University of Iceland, Reykjavík |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Robert Cutrer, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto |
| Paper 331-a | Olaf Tryggvason and Olaf Haraldson: English Agents on Norwegian 'Throne' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 331-b | 'It Was the Greatest Wrong and Illegality That He Should Be Sole Ruler of Well-Nigh All Norway, Crushing Partly in Battle and Partly by Treachery the Kings Whom He [Jarl Hákon] Ought To Have Served': Kingship in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en Mesta (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 331-c | Peacemaking and the Figure of the rex iustus in Sverris saga (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The Icelandic sagas present conflict, whether legal or physical, as unavoidable within the context of the tales being related. The methods by which the characters resolve their conflicts provide insight not only into the attitudes of the saga authors and compilers, but also into the social, legal, and military realities of the times in which they occurred. These sessions examine the methods employed to resolve conflicts in a number of popular Íslendingasögur, as well as the societal impact and practical realities of those resolutions, be they legal, social, or military in nature. |