'Hon var ódmálug mjök ok medallagi vitr': Instigation to Vengeance in the Icelandic Family Sagas

Abstract

This article is an attempt to determine whether the motif of the female whetter in the early Saga of the Slayings on the Heath (Heidarvíga saga), and in the Icelandic family sagas in general, represents merely a literary commonplace.

Keywords

• ódmálug
• medallagi
• vitr&apos
• Instigation
• Vengeance
• Icelandic
• Family
• Sagas