Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland by Rebecca Merkelbach

The Northern Medieval World

Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland

Rebecca Merkelbach

253 pages hardcover

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Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does...

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