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Reviews the complexities of women's landholding and their possibility of having a marriage strategy of their own. Two other lines of study spring to mind after reading Bagerius's book. First, that of comparing the indigenous riddarasögur to other literary genres of continuing interest. For example, how are we to explain why the great manuscripts Möðruvallabók (Sagas of Icelanders) and Flateyjarbók (Kings' Sagas) and Skarðsbók (Sagas of Apostles) also were produced at the same time as indigenous riddarasögur became popular? Do they reflect other interests or ideologies among the aristocracy or at least provide a more complex picture in which, for example, the lack of interest in virginity in the Sagas of Icelanders continued to be relevant in formations of social and sexual identities in certain contexts? Second, it would also be interesting to have a study of an aristocratic family or milieu that produced large manuscripts of riddarasögur. Ormr Snorrason of Skarð who probably commissioned Ormsbók in the late fourteenth century (d.c. 1402) would be a relevant case. No less interesting would be a study of Margrét Vigfúsdóttir (d. 1486), one of the richest and most powerful women of her time. She was related to the Norwegian nobility
Scandinavian Studies – Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Published: Aug 29, 2013
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