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Servitude and sexuality in medieval Icelandessay 1992 • Karras, Ruth Mazo
Early Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
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 ...