Conquering Minds: Konungs skuggsiá and the Annexation of Iceland in the Thirteenth Century

Brégaint, David

doi:10.1353/scd.2012.0061

Scandinavian Studies

2012

DOI: 10.1353/scd.2012.0061

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Conquering Minds: Konungs skuggsiá and the Annexation of Iceland in the Thirteenth Century

David Brégaint¹

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Fuerzas externas y agencia individual en el Medievo Nórdico: los vicios humanos y las actitudes honorables como herramientas del destino

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El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las formas en las que el destino toma presencia en el Medievo Nórdico. Nos centraremos especialmente en Vǫlsunga saga y su contexto de producción. Veremos que las dinámicas sociales de Islandia y Noruega durante el siglo xiii condicionan la representación del destino y los efectos que tiene sobre el individuo. La necesidad de la reciprocidad era crucial para el mantenimiento de una sociedad basada en las relaciones personales y en sistemas de amistad. Por ello, la avaricia es uno de los principales elementos transgresores condenados en esta saga. En dicha narrativa, un tesoro maldito atrae la codicia de los personajes y los motivará a transgredir otras normas fundamentales. Esta maldición fija a la vez un destino fatídico que pone en cuestión la libertad que un individuo puede tener en un mundo condicionado. Estos determinantes son impuestos también por otras fuerzas externas que encuentran su comparación con el propio destino. Así, demostraremos que el honor y las exigencias impuestas dentro de una estructura de parentesco son representadas con la misma inexorabilidad que el destino y la misma destructividad que la codicia. Tanto el honor excesivo como la codicia tendrán la capacidad de arrastrar a los individuos a un futuro aciago que engullirá tanto a los cómplices como a los inocentes.

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Fuerzas externas y agencia individual en el Medievo Nórdico: los vicios humanos y las actitudes honorables como herramientas del destino

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Political Regimes and Climate Change: Learning from Past Civilisations

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As the world is threatened by new and powerful climate-driven hazards, how are states and societies likely to react? In this paper, I explore the role of regime type in determining the likelihood of state survival under extreme environmental conditions. I begin with a theoretical and empirical analysis of public goods provision under different regime types, finding no evidence for the contention that any one particular regime is superior to others. Following from this, I argue that the survival of the state under increased hazard conditions will at least partly be a function of political flexibility, with more democratic regimes better able to weather crisis than non-democratic ones. I explore this argument by analysing two historical cases of climate change: the non-democratic Maya civilisation in the first millennium and the quasi-democratic Icelandic state at the start of the second millennium. These historical cases highlight potential advantages to the democratic system in allowing states to survive a world with increased hazards but also underscore how rising competition and political instability can negatively impact those same democratic institutions. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .

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Conquering Minds: Konungs skuggsiá and the Annexation of Iceland in the Thirteenth Century

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Fuerzas externas y agencia individual en el Medievo Nórdico: los vicios humanos y las actitudes honorables como herramientas del destino

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Political Regimes and Climate Change: Learning from Past Civilisations

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