Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Feud in Saga Narrative: Its Roots in Icelandic Society
3 The Syntax of Narrative Elements
4 Units of Travel and Information and the Feudeme of
Conflict
5 The Feudeme of Advocacy
6 The Feudeme of Resolution
7 Feud Clusters and Feud Chains
8 The Importance of Land in Saga Feud
9 Two Sets of Feud Chains in Njals saga
10 Saga Narrative with Low Cluster Density
11 Conclusion
Appendixes
A. A Brief Account of Legal and Social Terms
B. Examples of Conflict
Material Sources of Conflict
Nonmaterial Sources of Conflict
C. Examples of Advocacy
Brokerage
Self-Advocacy
Goading
Information Passing
D. Examples of Resolution
Arbitration
Direct Resolution
Rejected Resolution
Index
Maps
Jesse Byock is Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of Medieval Iceland (California, 1988) and translator of The Saga of the Volsungs (California, 1990).
"Byock's scholarly ambitions are boldly imaginative and on the cutting edge of the human sciences."--"Journal of American Folklore
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