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Why Is Your Axe Bloody
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Author : William Ian Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Why Is Your Axe Bloody written by William Ian Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud that starts innocently enough--in a tiff over seating arrangement 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 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. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author's stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In 'Why is Your Axe Bloody?' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely orignal personal reading of this lengthy saga.
Why Is Your Axe Bloody
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Author : William Ian Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Why Is Your Axe Bloody written by William Ian Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Njáls saga categories.
Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement 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 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. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author's stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In 'Why is your axe bloody' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely original personal reading of this lengthy saga.
Hrafnkel Or The Ambiguities
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Author : William Ian Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Hrafnkel Or The Ambiguities written by William Ian Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture and pain-infliction as a means of generating fellow-feeling. How does one measure pain and humiliation so as to get even, to get back to equal? People are forced to set prices on things we tell ourselves soporifically are priceless, such as esteem, dignity, life itself. Morality no less than legal remedy involves price-setting. This book flies in the face of all the previous critical literature which, with very few exceptions, imposes simplistic readings on the saga. A translation of the saga is provided as an appendix.
Iron Axe
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Author : Steven Harper
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-01-06
Iron Axe written by Steven Harper and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with Fiction categories.
In this brand new series from the author of the Clockwork Empire series, a hopeless outcast must answer Death’s call and embark on an epic adventure.... Although Danr’s mother was human, his father was one of the hated Stane, a troll from the mountains. Now Danr has nothing to look forward to but a life of disapproval and mistrust, answering to “Trollboy” and condemned to hard labor on a farm. Until, without warning, strange creatures come down from the mountains to attack the village. Spirits walk the land, terrifying the living. Trolls creep out from under the mountain, provoking war with the elves. And Death herself calls upon Danr to set things right. At Death’s insistence, Danr heads out to find the Iron Axe, the weapon that sundered the continent a thousand years ago. Together with unlikely companions, Danr will brave fantastic and dangerous creatures to find a weapon that could save the world—or destroy it.
Bloodtaking And Peacemaking
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Author : William Ian Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-05-15
Bloodtaking And Peacemaking written by William Ian Miller and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a paradox in striking the balance—one could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. "Illuminating."—Rory McTurk, Times Literary Supplement "An impressive achievement in ethnohistory; it is an amalgam of historical research with legal and anthropological interpretation. What is more, and rarer, is that it is a pleasure to read due to the inclusion of narrative case material from the sagas themselves."—Dan Bauer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
The Highlands Of Scotland In 1750
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Highlands Of Scotland In 1750 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Highlands (Scotland) categories.
Harper S Cyclop Dia Of British And American Poetry
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Author : Epes Sargent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Harper S Cyclop Dia Of British And American Poetry written by Epes Sargent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with American poetry categories.
Why Should The Chinese Go
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Author : Alexander Del Mar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Why Should The Chinese Go written by Alexander Del Mar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Chinese categories.
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Third Part Of King Henry Vi King Richard Iii King Henry Viii Romeo And Juliet Othello King Lear Macbeth Timon Of Athens Hamlet Troilus And Cressida Cymbeline Coriolanus Julius C Sar Antony And Cleopatra Titus Andronicus Pericles Venus And Adonis The Rape Of Lucrece Sonnets A Lover S Complaint The Passionate Pilgrim Sonnets To Sundry Notes Of Music Song Verses Among The Additional Poems To Chester S Love S Martyr 1601 written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
The Works Of Shakespeare
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Works Of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.