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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Hrafnkel or the ambiguities
    sub title: hard cases, hard choices
  name:
    name part: Miller, William Ian
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: non
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : maps (black and white)
  abstract: William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. His account of this complex and nuanced saga corrects simplistic readings which have governed interpretation of the saga in the past.
  table of contents: I.INTRODUCTION -- 1.A Somewhat Querulous Introduction: Hrafnkel and the Critics -- The Hrafnkel Problem: Matters of Origins and Historicity -- Law and Literature -- 2.Of Names and Manageability -- II.ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND GEOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- 3.The Saga's Economics (ch. 14) -- Extending Credit and Going into Debt -- Culling Kids and Hrafnkel's Gamble -- Juridical Rank and Status -- 4.New-Found Land and Setting up Households (chs. 1 -- 2) -- Fathers and Sons -- III.HORSE, VOW, AND KILLING -- 5.Freysgoi, Frey, and Freyfaxi -- 6.The Ojafnaoarmaor (The Unevenman) -- Jafn vs. The Inherent Competitiveness of Honor -- 7.Sam, Einar, and Hrafnkel (chs. 3 -- 6) -- Sam -- Einar and Hrafnkel -- 8.Freyfaxi and Hrafnkel: More on the Vow and its Price (chs. 5 -- 6) -- Vows Revisited -- 9.Hrafnkel's Offer (ch. 7) -- 10.Thorbjorn's Rejection (ch. 7 cont.) -- IV.LAWSUIT AB OVO TO FINAL SETTLEMENT -- 11.Mustering Support and Going Public (ch. 7 cont.) -- Kinsmen -- 12.The Lawsuit: Preparatory Stages (chs. 8 -- 9) -- Deus ex Machina: Thorkel Thjostarsson -- 13.Thorkel's Homily on Fellow-Feeling and Commensurating Pain (ch. 10) -- 14.The Trial (chs. 11 -- 12) -- Sam's Victory Dance -- 15.Hanging Upside-Down and Sam's Self-Judgment (ch. 13) -- The Gift of Life -- 16.Farewell Freyfaxi and Frey (chs. 15 -- 16) -- 17.The True Nature of Hrafnkel's Transformation (ch. 16) -- V.SIX YEARS LATER -- 18.Eyvind Returns; a Gri∂kona Takes Over (ch. 17) -- The Skosveinn -- The Astute Washerwoman -- 19.Who in Hell Are We Rooting For? (ch. 18) -- Chase Scenes and Their Discontents -- Trying to Give Eyvind a Psychology -- Offstage -- 20.Hrafnkel's Judgment and Justification (ch. 19) -- You Got Two Choices, Neither of Them Good -- An Evenman Who Pays Compensation -- Justifying Killing Eyvind -- Wiggle Room and Evenness -- Coda: Settlement Breaking -- 21.Sam's Last Gasp (ch. 20) -- 22.Sam and Morpheus: What Counts as Taking a Turn -- Turn-Taking Revisited -- Three Speeches Briefly Revisited -- 23.Conclusi…
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: William Ian Miller.
  note: This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Includes text of Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða, translated from manuscript ÁM 156, fol. into English.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða
  subject:
    topic: Icelandic poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Poésie islandaise
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Icelandic poetry
  classification: PT7269.H9
  classification: 839.61
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2016940203
  related item:
    title info:
      title: UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
  identifier: 9780191834776
  identifier: 0191834777
  identifier: 9780198793038
  identifier: 0198793030
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 161213
    record change date: 20260319163523.8
    record identifier: in00005714426
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng