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...
| Published in: | Scandinavian Studies Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 289 - 323 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Fall2019
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