![]() In the following paragraphs, I will scrutinize one recurring event from the legendary sagas (fornaldar sogur)-the encounter of a male, human hero with a female troll or trolls-in order to open a space in which one kind of women's voice may speak. Nevertheless, it is possible to isolate how specific speech situations achieve narrative focus. ![]() ![]() TRACING THE POSSIBLE discourse positions for women-women's voices or the positions from which they speak-in the Old Icelandic saga corpus is a daunting task, chiefly because of the diversity of texts generally included in that corpus including (among other things) Icelandic family sagas, legendary sagas, saints' lives, translated Continental romances, contemporary histories, and reconstructed mythologized histories. ![]()
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