Until recently, discussion of disability in the Icelandic saga corpus has focused largely on theoretical diagnosis and disability as a narrative function, with little attention or reference to established disability theory and scholarship. In response, this thesis evaluates how disability is constructed and represented in the sagas and explicitly engages with disability studies and a combination of literary theory and discourse analysis techniques. The main objective is to propose a framework of how medieval Icelandic sagas viewed and used disability in their social and literary narratives and to illustrate how imposing a more modern concept of disability on these texts limits scholarly discussion of the contemporary social dynamics. Given ...
Throughout the Icelandic sagas, the role of legs and feet has always been significant, most often wi...
Disabled women across the globe have experienced multiple oppressions on the grounds of gender, disa...
This article considers the status of physically disabled people in medieval Nordic society by examin...
Viðfangsefni þessarar rannsóknar var að kanna birtingamyndir fötlunar og fatlaðs fólks í íslenskum b...
Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying t...
Sú rannsókn sem hér fer á eftir er 60 eininga ritgerð til meistaraprófs í þjóðfræði við félags- og m...
A foreword to the thematic issue "Disability in the Medieval World".A foreword to the thematic issue...
Using the lives of impaired individuals catalogued in the Íslendingasögur as a narrative framework, ...
Multilingualism studies is a rapidly developing field. In recent years, exciting leaps have been mad...
This article explores conceptions of people with intellectual impairments in medieval Iceland. Focus...
After providing English translations of the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, Ketils saga hængs and Gríms s...
In medieval literature monstrous bodies form an integral part of the supernatural. Some are simply u...
This article focuses on the implications of ‘disabled masculinity’ within the broader religious cont...
The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the margina...
In medieval literature monstrous bodies form an integral part of the supernatural. Some are simply u...
Throughout the Icelandic sagas, the role of legs and feet has always been significant, most often wi...
Disabled women across the globe have experienced multiple oppressions on the grounds of gender, disa...
This article considers the status of physically disabled people in medieval Nordic society by examin...
Viðfangsefni þessarar rannsóknar var að kanna birtingamyndir fötlunar og fatlaðs fólks í íslenskum b...
Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying t...
Sú rannsókn sem hér fer á eftir er 60 eininga ritgerð til meistaraprófs í þjóðfræði við félags- og m...
A foreword to the thematic issue "Disability in the Medieval World".A foreword to the thematic issue...
Using the lives of impaired individuals catalogued in the Íslendingasögur as a narrative framework, ...
Multilingualism studies is a rapidly developing field. In recent years, exciting leaps have been mad...
This article explores conceptions of people with intellectual impairments in medieval Iceland. Focus...
After providing English translations of the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, Ketils saga hængs and Gríms s...
In medieval literature monstrous bodies form an integral part of the supernatural. Some are simply u...
This article focuses on the implications of ‘disabled masculinity’ within the broader religious cont...
The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the margina...
In medieval literature monstrous bodies form an integral part of the supernatural. Some are simply u...
Throughout the Icelandic sagas, the role of legs and feet has always been significant, most often wi...
Disabled women across the globe have experienced multiple oppressions on the grounds of gender, disa...
This article considers the status of physically disabled people in medieval Nordic society by examin...