Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders

George C. Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur (''Sagas of Icelanders'') and associated Íslendingaþættir (''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 vari...