Reading Animal-Human Relations: Sámr and Gunnarr Njáls saga.
This article proposes that the role of other animal-human partnerships in the Íslendingasögur needs to be closely examined in the same way as performed here for Sámr and Gunnarr, to fully understand the animal-human interactions in these Old Norse-Icelandic texts. Gunnarr's response to Sámr's death,...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Studies Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
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