Medieval Icelandic Bodies in "Tristram ok Ísodd"

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in "Tristram ok Ísodd" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters in the Icelandic version of the Tristan romance, the Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd, through the lens of the Íslendingasögur, the classic sagas of the early Icelanders. Although its origins are somewhat unclear, the Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd derives, ultimately, from Thomas's Anglo-Norman Tristran and was composed under the influence of the Old Norse translation, in 1226, of the Anglo...