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Title

Death ere the Afternoon: Jómsvíkinga saga and a Scene in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls

Author

Richard North

Document Type

Essay

Citation

North, Richard. "Death ere the Afternoon: Jómsvíkinga saga and a Scene in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls." In The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery, Engagement, edited by Tom Birkett and Roderick Dale, 145-61. Boston, MA: De Gruyter Medieval Institute Publications Western Michigan University, 2020.

Annotation

Although there is no evidence that Hemingway ever read an Icelandic saga, North finds a thematic resonance in the scene in For Whom the Bell Tolls in which Pilar recounts her husband Pablo's violent assault on Franco's civil guard. He traces this "model of manly indifference to death" to a contemporary retelling of a Viking tale, Eric Linklater's The Men of Ness, a text Hemingway owned and likely read before composing his novel of the Spanish Civil War.

Published in

The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery, Engagement

Date

2020

Pages

145-161

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