| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) |
| Series |
Medieval law and its practice, 1873-8176 ; v. 1 |
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Medieval law and its practice ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Some technical matters : dates, origin, versions -- The story of Audun from the Westfjords (Audun's story) -- The commitment to plausibility -- Helping Thorir and buying the bear -- Dealing with King Harald -- Giving the bear to Svein : the interests in the bear -- Saying no to kings -- Eggs in one basket and market value -- Rome : self-impoverishment and self-confidence -- Repaying the bear -- Back to Harald : the yielding of accounts -- Audun's luck -- Richness and risk -- -- Motives -- Gaming the system : gift-ref -- Regiving and reclaiming gifts -- Relevant law -- Serious scarcity, self-interest and Audun's mother -- In the gift vs. in on the gift -- Gifts upward : repaying by receiving and funny money -- The obligation to accept -- Giving up and down hierarchies : of god(s), beggars, and equals -- Nadad and Abihu : sacrifice, caprice, and binding god and kings -- Funny money that is not so funny -- Of free and closing gifts -- Coda : the whiteness of the bear |
| Summary |
"Audun's Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a story of complex competitive social action, revealing the cool wit and finely - calibrated reticence of its three main characters: Audun, Harald Hardradi, and King Svein. The tale has much to engage legal and cultural historians, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and students of literature." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97023159
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Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka fast |
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Flateyjarbók gnd |
| Subject |
Law, Scandinavian -- Sources
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Sagas.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Law, Scandinavian
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Sagas
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Geschenk Motiv
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Rechtsobjekt
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| Genre/Form |
Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, William Ian, 1946-
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| LC no. |
2008014093 |
| ISBN |
9789047443445 |
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9047443446 |
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1282399268 |
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9781282399266 |
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9786612399268 |
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6612399260 |
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