HIST 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Saga, Masculinity, Separate Spheres
17 Dec 2015
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Skilled in weapon various ones not just one. Handsome blond/redhead with blue eyes fair flashing/piercing eyes. Others say bare- as in no shirt. In the sagas, the hero is supposed to defeat the berserks. Some scholars say yes saying they were an elite group of warriors. Others say they were high on hallucinogenic mushrooms. Only one poems that remains from the time talking about berserks. One claims that they are most likely a literary invention but scholars disagree. Good way to approach sources is to compare old sources to contemporary sources. Honour is the value of a person in his own eyes, but also in the eyes of his society. It is his estimation of his own wrht, his claim to pride, but it is also the acknowledgement of that claim, his . Personal honour: qualities of the person: courage, skills, generosity. Female honour: sexual status, chastity - actually have the same type of honour as men.
