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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