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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Note to ReadersAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsGenealogiesPart I: Introduction1. A Somewhat Querulous Introduction: Hrafnkel and the Critics2. Of Names and ManageabilityPart II. Economic, Social, and Geological Context3. The Saga's Economics (ch. 14)4. New-found Land and Setting up Households (chs. 1-2)III. Horse, Vow, and Killing5. Freysgodi, Frey, and Freyfaxi6. The Ojafnadarmadr (the 'unevenman')7. Sam, Einar, Hrafnkel (chs 3-6)8. Freyfaxi and Hrafnkel: More on the Vow and its Price (chs 5-6)9. Hrafnkel's Offer (ch. 7)10. Thorbjorn's Rejection (ch. 7 cont.)IV. Lawsuit ab ovo to 'Final' Settlement11. Mustering Support and Going Public (ch. 7 cont.)12. The Lawsuit: Preparatory Stages (chs 8-9)13. Thorkel's Homily on Fellow-feeling and Commensurating Pain (ch. 10)14. The trial (chs 11-12)15. Hanging Upside-down and Sam's Self-judgment (ch. 13)16. Farewell Freyfaxi and Frey (chs 15-16)17. The 'True' Nature of Hrafnkel's Transformation (ch. 16)V. Six Years Later18. Eyvind Returns; a Gridkona Takes Over (ch. 17)19. Who in Hell Are We Rooting For? (ch. 18)20. Hrafnkel's Judgment and Justification (ch. 19)21. Sam's Last Gasp (ch. 20)22. Sam and Morpheus: What Counts as Taking a Turn23. Conclusion: Hard cases, hard choicesAppendicesA. Hrafnkels saga Freysgodi, translation of MS AM 156, fol.B. Glossary of Norse TermsWorks CitedA.1 Hrafnkels saga, editions and translations consultedA.2 Norse sources and translationsB. Secondary WorksMapsIndex