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Women as a Source of heilræði, 'sound counsel': Social Mediation and Community Integration in Fóstbrœðra saga

It is my intention in this article to make a case for opening up the discussion of women in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, and move it away from an excessive focus on their role in inciting male violence. The all-too-well documented vengeful woman, troubling her menfolk with cold counsels of revenge has almost become a cliche.1 Just as Sarah M. Anderson observes about proverbial summary, this tendency towards stereotyping “can have the effect of chilling speculation and concealing complication, of halting