Disability in Battles and Disability from Battles in Medieval Icelandic Literature
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f there is one thing that most sagas share, it‘s a propensity for describing battles over land, politics, honor and everything in between. These battles often result in injury, which in turn often leads to persistent health issues and other forms of embodied difference. The participants of the battles are also not always what today‘s society would call “non-disabled”. Men with wooden legs, without heads [sic], without bones, or with sensory disabilities can sometimes participate in battle and even utilize their embodied difference to their martial favor. This webinar will thus look at both aspects of battle participation described in Old Norse literature, focusing on (but not limited to) the Sagas of the Icelanders, the contemporary sagas, and the Kings’ sagas.
Une conférence de Yoav TIROSH (Háskóli Íslands) dans le cadre du webinaire Disability & War in the Middle Ages.
