If She Says Yes or Is Silent: A New Interpretation of FemaleMarital Consent in the Settlement Period in Iceland as RevealedThrough the Family Sagas Público
Fortney, Jill Marie (2009)
Abstract
This thesis seeks to explain how female marital consent functioned in Saga-Age (870 - -1050) Iceland by examining the Family Sagas and the Law Code. It is in part a response to the work of another scholar, Jenny Jochens and her book Women in Old Norse Society. Jochens believes that female marital consent did not exist in Iceland during the Saga Age and that any mention of it in the Sagas is a Christian interpolation and does not represent historical fact. This thesis seeks to counter that argument by arguing that the authors of the Sagas, while Christian, did not have a writing program that included inserting female marital consent when there was none before.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction 1 Sagas as Sources for Social History 3 Current Scholarship and Its Flaws 10 An Alternate View 18 Conclusions 45
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