Strengði hon elfi: Female Reactions to Male Violence in Eddic Heroic Poetry.

The article looks at a study which focuses on portrayals of Brynhildr Buðladóttir and Guðrún Gjúkadóttir in the eddic heroic poems and professed bewilderment over the texts' implied motivations for the characters' bloody actions. It mentions female reactions to male violence in eddic heroic poetry a...

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Published in:Scandinavian Studies Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 289 - 323
Main Author: Batten, Caroline R.
Format: Article
Published: University of Wisconsin Press Fall2019
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