Torfi H. Tulinius. Ærið gott gömlum og feigum

• Author: Torfi H. Tulinius
• Title: "Ærið gott gömlum og feigum." Seeking death in Njáls saga
• Published in: á austrvega: Saga and East Scandinavia : preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference. Uppsala, 9th-15th August, 2009
• Editors: Nay, Agneta. Williams, Henrik. Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier
• Place, Publisher: Gävle: Gävle University Press
• Year: 2009
• Pages:948-55
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• Reference: "Torfi Tulinius. "Ærið gott gömlum og feigum." Seeking death in Njáls saga", pp. 948-55. Eds. Agneta Nay, Henrik Williams, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist. Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2009.

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Chapter 119: mikill maður og fölleitur, ógæfusamlegur, harðlegur og tröllslegur?: “This episode is of special interest in relationship to the death drive. It is a series of five scenes which are all structured in the same way and all repeat with variations the identification of Skarphéðinn […] it is the repetition that makes them remarkable as well as the fearsome and uncanny behaviour of Skarphéðinn. This eeriness is suggested to the reader in several ways, among others in the way the four successive chieftains describe him. […] During this episode, there is something out of the ordinary to Skarphéðinn that awakens a sense of unease in those who meet him, as if death itself were among them. “ (p. 953).

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