Vǫlundr – a Gateway into the Legal World of the Vikings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Contributors IX
5. Narrating Law and Laws of Narration: Introduction 1
6. Part A. Narrating Law: Legal Texts – Narrative Texts – Contexts
7. Chieftains and the Legal Culture in Iceland c. 1100–1260 39
8. Making King Hákon Great Again: Law, God, Morality and Power in Björgvin, 1223 57
9. Law Personified. The Ignored Climactic Speeches of Brennu-Njáls saga 77
10. Part B. Laws of Narration: Narratological Approaches
11. Court Poetry: Assemblies and Skaldic Verse 91
12. What is ‘Good Law’? Law as Communal Performance in the Íslendingasögur 117
13. Revenge or Settlement? Law and Feud in Early Sagas of Icelanders 135
14. Part C. Narrating Law: Discourses on Social Norms
15. Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga 171
16. Social and Diegetic Hierarchies in Cases of Thievery. A Study of Mǫðruvallabók 185
17. Part D. Narrating Law: Mythological Traditions
18. Feudal Law and Archaic Order: The Discussion of Different Social Systems in the Queens’ Dispute in the Nibelungenlied 205
19. History or Idea? The Legendary Laws of Old Norsemen 225
20. Vǫlundr – a Gateway into the Legal World of the Vikings 255
21. Týr, Fenrir and the Brísingamen. Tales of Law, Crime and Violence in Eddic Mythology and their Indo-European Subcontexts 275
22. Name Index 289
23. Place Index 295