Oren Falk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1481176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oren Falk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oren |
| FAMILY NAME | Falk |
| SIGNATURE | FALK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Widowers' Two Plights
Widowers make occasional appearances in Icelandic sagas of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and-even though Old Norse did not even have a word for them-they exhibit some distinctive behavioral patterns. This article uses the framework of bereavement studies to examine the interplay of gender, affect, and small-scale politics in the wake of the loss of a wife. It proposes two archetypes of dysfunctional bereaved husband, observable in the m…
Medieval and Modern Civil Wars
Hólmganga í aptrgǫngu , ‘Zombie Duelling’
It is widely accepted that the hólmganga, a traditional form of Norse duelling, was abolished in the early eleventh century. Or was it? This article examines the evidence for the survival of the form into the thirteenth century (and beyond). It asks what defines a hólmganga, as well as what it means for a social institution to endure across centuries. I identify in the Íslendingasögur practices and idioms that constitute hólmganga conventions, ar…
'A Great Effusion of Blood'?
A Dark Age Peter Principle
Many readers, recognizing the incompatibility of heroism with the duties of kingship, have argued that Beowulf tells a story of colossal failure. Drawing on anthropological theory, I propose that the protagonist is more Big‐Man than king and that his heroism, far from a socially dysfunctional flaw, is in fact the leash by which society yanks him back from establishing himself as king. Beowulf thus speaks to an aristocracy disinclined to submit to…
The Vanishing Volcanoes
The entire corpus of Icelandic Family Sagas contains no express reference to volcanic fires. This article explores the reasons behind this puzzling absence in a genre whose realism is rightly celebrated. I propose to read a unique, oblique reference in Grettis saga as possible evidence of a submerged vernacular theory. "The Cultural Construction of Violence in Medieval Western Scandinavia." Unpublished Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 2002. [G…
Frillor och Fruar
Approaches to Vínland . Andrew Wawn , Þórunn SigurÐardóttir
Violence in the Early Robin Hood Poems
The Son of Orfeo
Research Article| May 01 2000 The Son of Orfeo: Kingship and Compromise in a Middle English Romance Oren Falk Oren Falk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 247–274. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-2-247 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
The Vanishing Volcanoes
The entire corpus of Icelandic Family Sagas contains no express reference to volcanic fires. This article explores the reasons behind this puzzling absence in a genre whose realism is rightly celebrated. I propose to read a unique, oblique reference in Grettis saga as possible evidence of a submerged vernacular theory. "The Cultural Construction of Violence in Medieval Western Scandinavia." Unpublished Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 2002. [G…
The Son of Orfeo
Research Article| May 01 2000 The Son of Orfeo: Kingship and Compromise in a Middle English Romance Oren Falk Oren Falk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 247–274. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-2-247 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Violence in the Early Robin Hood Poems
Approaches to Vínland . Andrew Wawn , Þórunn SigurÐardóttir
Frillor och Fruar
The Vanishing Volcanoes
The entire corpus of Icelandic Family Sagas contains no express reference to volcanic fires. This article explores the reasons behind this puzzling absence in a genre whose realism is rightly celebrated. I propose to read a unique, oblique reference in Grettis saga as possible evidence of a submerged vernacular theory. "The Cultural Construction of Violence in Medieval Western Scandinavia." Unpublished Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 2002. [G…
A Dark Age Peter Principle
Many readers, recognizing the incompatibility of heroism with the duties of kingship, have argued that Beowulf tells a story of colossal failure. Drawing on anthropological theory, I propose that the protagonist is more Big‐Man than king and that his heroism, far from a socially dysfunctional flaw, is in fact the leash by which society yanks him back from establishing himself as king. Beowulf thus speaks to an aristocracy disinclined to submit to…
'A Great Effusion of Blood'?
Hólmganga í aptrgǫngu , ‘Zombie Duelling’
It is widely accepted that the hólmganga, a traditional form of Norse duelling, was abolished in the early eleventh century. Or was it? This article examines the evidence for the survival of the form into the thirteenth century (and beyond). It asks what defines a hólmganga, as well as what it means for a social institution to endure across centuries. I identify in the Íslendingasögur practices and idioms that constitute hólmganga conventions, ar…
Medieval and Modern Civil Wars
The Widowers' Two Plights
Widowers make occasional appearances in Icelandic sagas of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and-even though Old Norse did not even have a word for them-they exhibit some distinctive behavioral patterns. This article uses the framework of bereavement studies to examine the interplay of gender, affect, and small-scale politics in the wake of the loss of a wife. It proposes two archetypes of dysfunctional bereaved husband, observable in the m…
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