Feud in the Icelandic Saga Author:Jesse L. Byock Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic societythe channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative stru... more »cture demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought.« less