Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders^

Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that details conflicts and feuds of Icelanders from the late-ninth to early-eleventh centuries.

George C. Manning is a lecturer in medieval literature at Magdalen College and St Anne's College, Oxford. He holds a BA in English Literature from Durham University, an MSt in Medieval English from Mansfield College, Oxford, and a DPhil (PhD) in Old Norse literature from St Anne's College, Oxford. He has taught Old Norse, Old English, and Middle English at several Oxford colleges. He was previously Departmental Lecturer in Old Norse at the University of Oxford's English Faculty. His research mostly focusses on the construction and portrayal of gender and emotion, especially masculinity and anger, in Old Norse literature.