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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Amory, Frederic
Title:
The medieval Icelandic outlaw: lifestyle, saga, and
legend
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
From sagas to society : comparative approaches to early
Iceland, edited by Gísli Pálsson
Published By: Original publisher
From sagas to society : comparative approaches to early
Iceland, edited by Gísli Pálsson
Enfield Lock, Middlesex, UK: Hisarlik Press. 1992. 189-203
p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Frederic Amory
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2004. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Early Icelanders (EQ02)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Verbal arts (5310);
Districts (634);
Legal norms (671);
Crime (674);
Offenses against life (682);
Execution of justice (696);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the outlaw in medieval Icelandic
society. Amory discusses the legal concept of outlawry in Iceland, the sagas as literary
models of outlaw biography, and the folkloric approach to the outlaw sagas. To these the
author adds the social aspects of outlawry in which outlaws, for example, band together to
form microsocieties within the society as a whole. The text contains data on the
life-styles of outlaws, and their relationship to the GOðI or chieftains who offer them
refuge and their patronage and protection from prosecution in return for the outlaws'
services doing manual work and as assassins in the settlement of old scores in the feuds
between chieftains.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
19
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
eq02-019
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
For bibliographical references see document 10: [Gísli
Pálsson]
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Educator-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 2002
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
ninth-thirteenth centuries
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
general Iceland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Icelanders
