SOURCE: Linke, Uli. “The Theft of Blood, the Birth of Men: Cultural Constructions of Gender in Medieval Iceland.” In From Sagas to Society: Comparative Approaches to Early Iceland, edited by Gísli Pálsson, pp. 265-88. Enfield Lock, Middlesex, Eng.: Hisarlik Press, 1992.
In the following essay, Linke studies the symbolic representation of female procreative power—and an instance of male appropriation of that power—in the Elder Edda.
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