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'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njąls Saga [Mīkstie vāki]

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(Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan)
  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, height x width x depth: 234x157x19 mm, weight: 540 g, 2 maps
  • Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2016
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198768923
  • ISBN-13: 9780198768920
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'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njàls SagaPalielināt
  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, height x width x depth: 234x157x19 mm, weight: 540 g, 2 maps
  • Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2016
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198768923
  • ISBN-13: 9780198768920
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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.

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.

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[ This] very readable and stimulating book opens our minds to the world of the sagas, the minds of their characters, and of Njįls saga in particular, and leaves us admiring a thrilling reading in which the professor of law engages us with the saga more successfully than many a literary critic. * Judith Jesch, Times Literary Supplement * Here Miller is an astute guide, explaining (as the saga-author doesn't) what the fixers and the wise men of Iceland must have been thinking. * Tom Shippey, London Review of Books * Brilliant. Miller's impressive reading of this Icelandic masterpiece is thought provoking, informative, entertaining, challenging, and thoroughly delightful. Those new to the saga will be enthralled, and those already familiar with it will find something new here. Miller seamlessly weaves the reading of Njįls Saga with his knowledge of medieval Icelandic law and society, demonstrating his mastery of the subject while highlighting his admiration of the saga and its anonymous author. Miller explores the subtle genius of the saga and explains it to modern readers with rare insight. Miller's knowledge and love of NjĆ”ls Sag and his wit in discussing it, make this a rare and thoroughly successful reading of the work. He is a truly gifted scholar. * A. E. Leykam, CHOICE * I cannot imagine an academic text which I would have had as much pleasure quarrelling with as assenting to, nor an author more able than Miller to enlighten, surprise, and delight expert and lay readers alike. * Slavica Rankovic, Modern Language Review *

Abbreviations xxi
Note to Readers xxiii
Introduction 1(14)
Some Social Background
3(5)
The Story in a Nutshell
8(5)
Saga Narrative and the Motives of Characters
13(2)
1 Njala's Unity Problem and the Very Beginning:
Chapter 1
15(9)
2 Marriage Formation and Dissolution:
Chapters 2--34
24(25)
Case 1 Hrut and Unn
24(9)
Case 2 Hallgerd and Thorvald, with Cameos by Skarphedin and Thorhild, Grim and Astrid, and Helgi and Thorhalla
33(11)
Case 3 Hallgerd and Glum (chapters 13--17)
44(5)
3 Making a Scene:
Chapters 34--5, 48
49(13)
Thrain
51(4)
Seating Arrangements
55(4)
Wife-beating in Company
59(3)
4 Looking Forward: Njal's Prescience:
Chapters 22--3
62(11)
Disenchantment
63(6)
Das Monstrum and the Future Tense
69(2)
Prescient Coda
71(2)
5 Bergthora vs. Hallgerd, Part I. The Theory:
Chapters 35--45
73(15)
The Balanced-Exchange Model and its Contradictions
75(4)
Compensation and its Contradictions
79(7)
The Model's Simplifications
86(2)
6 Bergthora vs. Hallgerd, Part II: Some Facts
88(21)
Atli's Story (chapters 36--8)
88(8)
Njala and Independent People
96(3)
Thord Freedmansson (chapters 39--43)
99(3)
The Lethal Insults (chapters 44--5)
102(7)
7 Otkel vs. Gunnar:
Chapters 46--56
109(14)
The `Theft'
110(6)
Gunnar s Lament
116(7)
8 Gunnar vs. the Thrihyrning People:
Chapters 57--66
123(11)
Njal as Banker and Lawyer
126(5)
Paying for Those You Have a Right to Kill
131(3)
9 The Two Thorgeirs and Death of Gunnar:
Chapters 67--77
134(10)
The Two Prongs of the `Prophecy'
136(4)
Death of Gunnar
140(4)
10 Revenge for Gunnar:
Chapters 77--81
144(9)
Gunnar and Envy Mismanagement
147(6)
11 The Atlantic Interlude and Hrapp:
Chapters 82--9
153(4)
12 Setting up Thrain:
Chapters 90--2
157(7)
Dining with Runolf
161(3)
13 A Tale of Two Hoskulds:
Chapters 93--9
164(14)
Amending the Constitution
168(1)
Lyting and the Breach of Father and Sons
169(9)
14 Conversion and the Genius of the Law:
Chapters 100--6
178(16)
Concerning Signs and Wonders
179(5)
`St.' Thorgeir the Lawspeaker
184(4)
Before and After Conversion: Compare and Contrast
188(6)
15 Valgard `the Wise' and Hoskuld's Blood:
Chapters 107--16
194(13)
Hoskuld Martyr
197(3)
The Cloak and Holy Relics
200(7)
16 Skarphedin Ascendans, Flosi's Ninth Nights:
Chapters 117--23
207(15)
Reintroducing Skarphedin
208(2)
Backing Down Thorkel Hake
210(2)
The Struggle for Settlement
212(4)
Flosi Furioso
216(6)
17 The Burning:
Chapters 124--32
222(26)
The Decision to Go Inside
225(6)
Njal's Virtuoso Going to Bed for the Last Time
231(3)
Skarphedin's Miracle
234(4)
Flosi's Flinch
238(2)
Thorhall Asgrimsson Hears of Njal's Death
240(2)
Cleaning Up Some Leftovers
242(1)
Coda: Exit Skarphedin and his Grins, Obit Njal
243(5)
18 Preparation for the Next Althing:
Chapters 132--7
248(11)
Flosi and Support-mustering
249(8)
Flosi Visits Asgrim,
Chapter 136
257(2)
19 The Trial of Flosi and the Battle:
Chapters 135, 141--5
259(17)
Law and its Limits
260(5)
Some Procedural Matters,
Chapters 135, 142
265(3)
Three Lawmen
268(8)
20 Kari and Friends:
Chapters 145--55
276(18)
Kari and Thorgeir
279(2)
Bjorn of Mork and Kari
281(3)
Kari vs. Gunnar
284(5)
Flosi and Kari
289(3)
Kari and the Author
292(2)
21 How Not to End a Saga, Unless...:
Chapters 146--59
294(7)
22 A Conclusion: Justice and Exits
301(8)
Works Cited 309(10)
Maps 319(2)
Genealogies 321(4)
Index 325
William Ian Miller is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively on the bloodfeud, especially as it is manifested in saga Iceland. Previous works include Bloodtaking and Peacemaking (1990), Eye for an Eye (2006), Audun and the Polar Bear (2008). He has also written about emotions, mostly unpleasant ones involving self-assessment, and various vices and virtues. Thus his books: The Anatomy of Disgust (1997), The Mystery of Courage (2000), Humiliation (1993), Faking It (2003), and most recently Losing It (2011) about the loss of mental acuity that comes with age, which includes a non-negligible share of saga matter and some from biblical Israel too. He is also Honorary Professor of history at the University of St. Andrews, and has been a visiting professor over the years at Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Bergen, and Tel Aviv.