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Let No Slight Pass: Icelandic Identity as Revealed in the Sagas |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
| Author: E. Paul Durrenberger |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,310 Words, 14,378 Characters |
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The Norwegians shouted at Arnbjörn to hurry up, complaining that he was like all Icelanders, slow in everything. Meanwhile, Thorleifur stumbled over Arnbjörn's pot, spilling his porridge. In retaliation, Arnbjörn hit Thorleifur on the back of the neck with a hot ladle, burning him. Thorleifur immediately turned on Arnbjörn but kept his head. "We are the only Icelanders here," he said evenly. "These Norwegians shall not have the opportunity to laugh because we two are fighting and they have to drag us apart like dogs. But I shall remember this when we are in Iceland."
Arnbjörn kept silent, and no further incident occurred.
A couple of years later, back in Iceland, Thorleifur sought permission to marry a chieftain's sister. But the chieftain's brother taunted him for not avenging the ...
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...genealogical Method," Cognitive Anthropology, Stephen A. Tyler, ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1969.
E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Pallsson, The Anthropology of Iceland, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1989.
E. Paul Durrenberger, The Dynamics of Medieval Iceland, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1992. ------, Icelandic Essays, Rudi Publishing, San Francisco, 1996.
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