The "Troll-Girl Revelation" Motif: Female Infantile Sexuality and Pedophilia in Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra and Jökuls þáttr Búasonar

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Matthew Harold Roby
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This article considers the sexual, gendered, and age-based ramifications of a recurrent motif in medieval Icelandic saga literature that I call the “troll-girl revelation.”1 Despite its popularity, appearing formulaically in four sagas attested from the late medieval and early modern periods, as well as more obliquely elsewhere, this trope has received remarkably little scholarly attention. In this story pattern, the male protagonist encounters a group of hostile troll-women, who display varying—including extreme—degrees of sexual boldness. Saga heroes are not infrequently confronted by such libidinous, supernatural females and, as a default response, the protagonist summarily dispatches these foes. As is also common in such altercations, the protagonist participates to varying extents in the troll-women’s eroticization, including via his symbolically sexual use and abuse of these figures as he conquers them. The sexual aggression of these women is thus
“巨魔女孩启示”主题:Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra和Jökuls þáttr Búasonar中的女性婴儿性行为和恋童癖
这篇文章考虑了中世纪冰岛传奇文学中一个反复出现的主题的性、性别和基于年龄的影响,我称之为“巨魔女孩启示”。1尽管它很受欢迎,在中世纪晚期和现代早期的四个传奇中公式化地出现,在其他地方也更为间接,但这个比喻很少受到学术关注。在这个故事模式中,男主角遇到了一群充满敌意的巨魔女性,她们表现出不同程度的性勇气,包括极端程度的性大胆。传奇英雄们经常遇到这种性欲旺盛、超自然的女性,作为默认的回应,主角会立即派出这些敌人。在这种争吵中也很常见,主人公在不同程度上参与了巨魔女性的色情化,包括在征服这些人物时对这些人物进行象征性的性使用和虐待。因此,这些妇女的性侵犯
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SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: Thank you for visiting the internet homepages of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. The Department of Scandinavian Studies was founded in 1909 by a special act of the Washington State Legislature. In the 99 years of its existence, the Department has grown from a one-person program to a comprehensive Scandinavian Studies department with a faculty fully engaged in leading-edge scholarship, award-winning teaching and dedicated university and community service.
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