The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.

Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway—their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs,

This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culturedemonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language andculture from medieval to modern t

The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outli

Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female charac