Scandinavian 3230
Revenge
Kaplan | 3 credit units
GE THEME Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World course.
Revenge is the engine of the medieval Icelandic sagas, stories of a Viking Age society just beyond the reach of kings, where honor is the main currency, and a pithy verse or a legal stratagem may overmatch even a steel axe. Learn about the workings of blood feud, about a distant society’s concepts of citizenship and justice, and find unexpected parallels in our here and now.
Prereq: none.