Like all maiden kings, Nítíða initially rejects her suitors only to accept marriage eventually. Rather than accepting the saga’s ‘happy ending’ as its heroine’s choice, this article argues that her kingship is cast as liminal in Victor Turner’s sense. Her character reflects liminal traits: visual, temporal and sexual ambiguity, mediated through the motif of invisibility, body-thing relations and notions of space. Nítíða’s kingship is structured as a transition to the role of a queen, which she does not take on voluntarily, but because she lacks choice in the face of her increasingly fragile power. Her suitor Livorius ultimately succeeds neither by trickery, military power, nor a courtly approach, but by employing structures Nítíða is excluded from due to her sex. Spared physical violence, she nonetheless suffers structural violence coercing her into a norm-appropriate role and erasing her kingship.

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隐形王权

像所有未婚国王一样，尼蒂达（Nítíða）最初拒绝求婚者，只是最终接受了婚姻。这篇文章并没有接受传奇的“幸福结局”作为其女主角的选择，而是认为从维克托·特纳的意义上说，她的王权是有限的。她的性格反映了边缘特征：视觉，时间和性的模棱两可，通过隐身，身体与事物的关系和空间概念的调解来实现。Nítíða的王权结构是向女王角色转变的，她不是自愿担任女王，而是因为面对日益脆弱的权力她没有选择余地。她的求婚者利沃里乌斯最终没有通过欺骗，军事力量或有礼貌的方式获得成功，但由于她的性别，使用尼塔蒂娅的结构被排除在外。少量的身体暴力，