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Lover in a Dangerous Time: Pathos and the Warrior-Poet in Fóstbræðra saga

Andrew McGillivray
Scandinavian Studies, September 2021, 93 (3) 383-404; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.93.3.0383
Andrew McGillivray
University of Winnipeg
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