Strengði hon elfi
Female Reactions to Male Violence in Eddic Heroic Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10736788 |
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| Authors | Caroline R Batten (0000-0002-0736-1955, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-322 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scandinavian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-5637 • E-ISSN: 2163-8195 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3368/sca.91.3.0289 |
| OpenAlex | W4391073869 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
The majority of the heroic poems of the Codex Regius (in manuscript c. 1270) focus on the hero Sigurðr Fáfnisbani, the Gjúkung family into whom he marries, particularly his wife Guðrún Gjúkadóttir, and the valkyrie Brynhildr, to whom he is ambiguously bound through mutual oaths. These poems
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| Highly cited | No |
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