Source : Manchester Univesity Press
Gareth Lloyd Evans, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir and Carolyne Larrington (éd.), Saga emotions, Manchester University Press, 2025
Focusing particularly on historically oriented sagas, Saga emotions identifies and examines a range of emotions from across Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature. Each chapter begins with a discrete emotion term, such as reiði (anger), gleði (joy), or the peculiarly Old Norse víghugr (killing-mood), exploring its usages within the broad saga corpus, and focusing on its contextual meanings and narrative purposes. The contributions explore the specifics of the lexical terms used for different emotion states and offer in-depth case studies that consider how various emotions manifest within particular examples of saga literature. The book offers the emotional granularity lacking in current studies of Norse emotion and serves as an essential foundation for future research and study into emotional depiction in Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature.
Introduction
1 angr, hryggr (sadness) – Edel Maria Porter
2 ást (Christian love) – Siân Grønlie
3 ást, elska, unna (Secular love) – Sif Rikhardsdottir
4 aumka, líkn, sampíning (compassion) – Ásdís Egilsdóttir
5 berserksgangr and víghugr (going berserk and the killing mood) – Gareth Lloyd Evans
6 girnd (desire) – Alexander Wilson
7 gleði (happiness, joy) – Carolyne Larrington
8 harmr, ho¨rmung, sorg, tregi (grief) – Kristen Mills
9 leiðask, leiðendi, viðbjóðr (disgust) – Rebecca Merkelbach
10 ofsi (pride) – Kate Olley
11 ótti (fear) – Teodoro Manrique Antón
12 reiði (anger) – George Manning
13 skomm, skammask (shame) – Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir
Index
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Damien Boquet (17 mai 2025). Saga emotions. Les émotions au Moyen Âge, carnet d'EMMA. Consulté le 14 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13y1v