Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders

This volume focuses on the representation of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders, a body of texts that Ted Hughes has described as ‘one of the great marvels of World Literature’ and that has benefited from increasing academic and public interest in recent years. Studies of gender, and particularly women, in the sagas of Icelanders are relatively commonplace, but this is the first book-length study of masculinities in this genre. By ranging across all of the sagas of Icelanders, it provides a comprehensive view of their representation of masculinity. Theoretical concepts and specialist background are clearly explained so that the work is accessible not only to the specialist reader, graduate students, and undergraduates, but also to the educated general interest reader.