Monsters in Society

Employingliterary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historicalapproaches, Social Monstrosity and theSagas of the Icelanders  reads themonsters of the Íslendingasögur intheir literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are notdistractions from feud and conflict, but that they are in fact an intrinsicpart of the genre’s re-imagining of the past for the needs of the present.