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Guide for teachers by Words without Borders: Teaching in Translation: Teaching the Sagas

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Material discussing Njal's Saga

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• Culturised: Sex and the Sagas: How to get a date in Medieval Iceland

• Njal's saga as a novel: four aspects of rewriting – by Jón Karl Helgason

• Njal's Saga and its Christian Background - by Hamer, A.J.

• Cultural Assimilation in Njal's saga - by Davis, C.R.

• Hallgerdur: Deconstructing the Sign - by Lopera, J.

• Women: Mischief and ‘Materiality’ in Laxdæla Saga and Njal's Saga - by Bainbridge, A.

• Powerful Women V. Submissive Women - by Conolly, S.

• Gender Roles and Symbolic Meaning in Njal's Saga - by Roswell, T.

• The Fabric of Society: Money, Cloth, and Symbolic Exchanges in Njal’s saga - by Michelet, F.L.

• Some observations on Íslendingasögur manuscripts and the case of Njáls saga - by Lethbridge, E.

• Masculinity and Politics in Njáls Saga - by Ármann Jakobsson

• A study of the Figure of the Prominent Woman in The Sagas of Icelanders ...

• A new stemma of Njals Saga - by various

• The Old Lady and Old Beardless: Gender, Emotion, and Legitimate Violence in Njal’ s Saga - by Ridpath, R.

• Gender Roles and Symbolic Meaning in Njáls Saga - by Rowsell, T.

• The concepts of gender and/or emotion as portrayed in Njal’s Saga - by Kenyon, V.

• No Fixed Point: Gender and Blood Feuds in Njal’s Saga - by Anderson, C.

• Pulling the Strings: The Influential Power of Women in Viking Age Iceland - by Holcomb, K.M.

• Parallels and Foils between the Men and Women in the Icelandic Family Sagas - by Knapper, R.

• Women in the Viking Age. Death, Life after Death and Burial Customs - by Spatecean C.

• My Mega Verse: Law in Iceland as seen in Njal's Saga

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