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100 1 $aMiller, William Ian,$d1946-$eauthor.
245 10 $a'Why is your axe bloody?' :$ba reading of Njáls saga /$cWilliam Ian Miller.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2016.
300 $axxiii, 334 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: 2014.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aNjáls saga, the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangements at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated. Njal and his family are burned to death in their farmhouse, the other faction picked off over the entire course of the feud. Law and feud feature centrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the greatest lawyer of his generation. In 'Why is your axe bloody?' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely orignal personal reading of this lengthy saga.
505 0 $aNjála's Unity Problem and the Very Beginning: Chapter 1 -- Marriage Formation and Dissolution: Chapters 2-34 -- Case 1: Hrut and Unn -- Case 2: Hallgerd and Thorvald, with Cameos by Skarphedin and Thorhild, Grim and Astrid, and Helgi and Thorhalla -- Case 3: Hallgerd and Glum (chapters 13-17) -- Making a Scene: Chapters 34-5, 48 -- Thrain -- Seating Arrangements -- Wife-beating in Company -- Looking Forward: Njal's Prescience: Chapters 22-3 -- Disenchantment -- Das Monstrum and the Future Tense -- Prescient Coda -- Bergthora vs. Hallgerd, Part I. The Theory: Chapters 35-45 -- The Balanced-Exchange Model and its Contradictions -- Compensation and its Contradictions -- The Model's Simplifications -- Bergthora vs. Hallgerd, Part II: Some Facts -- Atli's Story (chapters 36-8) -- Njála and Independent People -- Thord Freedmansson (chapters 39-43) -- The Lethal Insults (chapters 44-5) -- Otkel vs. Gunnar: Chapters 46-56 -- The 'Theft' -- Gunnar's Lament -- Gunnar vs. the Thrihyrning People: Chapters 57-66 -- Njal as Banker and Lawyer -- Paying for Those You Have a Right to Kill -- The Two Thorgeirs and Death of Gunnar: Chapters 67-77 -- The Two Prongs of the 'Prophecy' -- Death of Gunnar -- Revenge for Gunnar: Chapters 77-81 -- Gunnar and Envy Mismanagement -- The Atlantic Interlude and Hrapp: Chapters 82-9 -- Setting up Thrain: Chapters 90-2 -- Dining with Runolf -- A Tale of Two Hoskulds: Chapters 93-9 -- Amending the Constitution -- Lyting and the Breach of Father and Sons -- Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100-6 -- Concerning Signs and Wonders -- 'St.' Thorgeirthe Lawspeaker -- Before and After Conversion: Compare and Contrast -- Valgard 'the Wise' and Hoskuld's Blood: Chapters 107-16 -- Hoskuld Martyr -- The Cloak and Holy Relics -- Skarphedin Ascendans, Flosi's Ninth Nights: Chapters 117-23 -- Reintroducing Skarphedin -- Backing Down Thorkel Hake -- The Struggle for Settlement -- Flosi Furioso -- The Burning: Chapters 124-32 -- The Decision to Go Inside -- Njal's Virtuoso Going to Bed for the Last Time -- Skarphedin's Miracle -- Flosi's Flinch -- Thorhall Asgrimsson Hears of Njal's Death -- Cleaning Up Some Leftovers -- Coda: Exit Skarphedin and his Grins, Obit Njal -- Preparation for the Next Althing: Chapters 132-7 -- Flosi and Support-mustering -- Flosi Visits Asgrim, Chapter 136 -- The Trial of Flosi and the Battle: Chapters 135, 141-5 -- Law and its Limits -- Some Procedural Matters, Chapters 135, 142 -- Three Lawmen -- Kari and Friends: Chapters 145-55 -- Kari and Thorgeir -- Bjorn of Morkand Kari -- Kari vs. Gunnar -- Flosi and Kan -- Kari and the Author -- How Not to End a Saga, Unless ... : Chapters 146-59 -- A Conclusion: Justice and Exits.
630 00 $aNjáls saga.
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