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Saga Emotions

Saga Emotions

Evans, Gareth Lloyd
þOrgeirsdóttir, Brynja
Larrington, Carolyne

Hardcover

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1526177269
ISBN13: 9781526177261
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Focusing particularly on historically oriented sagas, Saga emotions identifies and examines a range of emotions from across Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature. Each chapter begins with a discrete emotion term, such as reiði (anger), gleði (joy), or the peculiarly Old Norse víghugr (killing-mood), exploring its usages within the broad saga corpus, and focusing on its contextual meanings and narrative purposes. The contributions explore the specifics of the lexical terms used for different emotion states and offer in-depth case studies that consider how various emotions manifest within particular examples of saga literature. The book offers the emotional granularity lacking in current studies of Norse emotion and serves as an essential foundation for future research and study into emotional depiction in Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature.

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