essay
Servitude and sexuality in medieval Iceland
From sagas to society : comparative approaches to early Iceland • Enfield Lock, Middlesex, Uk • Published In 1992 • Pages: 289-304
By: Karras, Ruth Mazo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
References to the sexual exploitation of women across social class lines are sparse in the Icelandic sagas, and when present cannot be taken as reliable evidence for social relation during the tenth and eleventh centuries -- the period to which most sagas most often refer. This paper discusses the domination of men over women in medieval Icelandic society and the sexual access that men of a higher social level had over women slaves and servants of the lower level
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domestic service
- Verbal arts
- Classes
- Slavery
- Sexuality
- Sexual intercourse
- Premarital sex relations
- Extramarital sex relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Icelanders
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Scandinavia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ninth-thirteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- general Iceland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ruth Mazo Karras
- For bibliographical references see document 10: [Gísli Pálsson]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93150093
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Icelanders