Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders - 9780198970620

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Anger in the Sagas of IcelandersAuthor(s): George C. Manning\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198970620, 978-0198970620\nSynopsis\nGeorge C. Manning examines the presentation of anger in the slendingasgur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and associated slendingattir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that detail conflicts and feuds of Icelanders during the late-ninth, tenth, and early-eleventh centuries. It first shows how various unqualified involuntary somatic responses, facial expressions, and bodily movements frequently indicate angry experience in the sagas, before arguing that anger's mode of expression is contingent on a character's sociocultural identity. Through close analysis of how five groups of characters--men, women, elderly men, berserkir (raging warriors), and sovereign figures--exhibit anger, the bo.