{"title":"The Níðingr and the Wolf","authors":"B. Ø. Thorvaldsen","doi":"10.1484/J.VMS.1.102621","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a cognitive model associated with the Old Norse concept of the niðingr. It is argued that the socially disruptive nature of the niðingr is associated with divine wrath, which again entails expulsion and misfortune. These ideas are primarily investigated in Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar and the Christian legal formulas Tryggðamal and Griðamal, and it is suggested that the archaic ‘niðingr model’ was adapted to Christian frames of reference after the conversion.","PeriodicalId":404438,"journal":{"name":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Viking and Medieval Scandinavia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VMS.1.102621","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article presents a cognitive model associated with the Old Norse concept of the niðingr. It is argued that the socially disruptive nature of the niðingr is associated with divine wrath, which again entails expulsion and misfortune. These ideas are primarily investigated in Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar and the Christian legal formulas Tryggðamal and Griðamal, and it is suggested that the archaic ‘niðingr model’ was adapted to Christian frames of reference after the conversion.