Animal-human relationships in medieval Iceland : from farm-settlement to sagas / Harriet J. Evans Tang.

• Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital and effective members of the multispecies communities established from the ninth century onwards. This book examines the domestic animals of early Iceland in their physical and textual contexts, through detailed analysis of the spaces and places of the Icelandic farm and farming landscape, and textual sources such as The Book of Settlements, the earliest Icelandic laws, and various episodes from the Sagas and Tales of Icelanders. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to animal-human relationships, it sees animals not solely as symbols, metaphors, or objects, but as subjects in affective relationships with their human co-settlers who become the focus of intense exploration, delight, anxiety and condemnation in later textual narratives. By inviting readers to question how these sources form, embrace, or reject animal-human relationships, it provides a resource for understanding these archaeological sites and textual narratives differently: as products of multispecies communities in which animals and humans lived, worked, and died together. 

Ämnesord

Djur och människor i litteraturen  (sao)

Husdjur i litteraturen  (sao)

Isländsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Human-animal relationships in literature.  (LCSH)

Domestic animals in literature.  (LCSH)

Icelandic literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Old Norse literature  -- Iceland -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Human-animal relationships  -- Iceland -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Domestic animals in literature.  (fast)

Human-animal relationships.  (fast)

Human-animal relationships in literature.  (fast)

Icelandic literature.  (fast)

Old Norse literature.  (fast)

Fornisländsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Djur och människor  -- historia (sao)

Human-animal relationships in literature  (LCSH)

Domestic animals in literature  (LCSH)

Island  (sao)

Iceland.  (fast)

Före 1500  (sao)

To 1500  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Gdca Litteraturhistoria: fornisländska

G.096z Litteraturhistoria: skönlitteratur med särskilda motiv

Klassifikation

PT7382 (LCC)

839.609356 (DDC)

Gdca (kssb/8)

G.096z Djur och människor (kssb/8)