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The medieval Icelandic outlawessay 1992 • Amory, Frederic
Early Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
This is a study of the outlaw in medieval Icelandic society. Amory discusses the legal concept of outlawry in Iceland, the sagas as literary models of outlaw biography, and the folkloric approach to the outlaw sagas. To these the author adds the soci...