| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 155 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index. |
| 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." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka.
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Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka. |
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Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka. |
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Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka. |
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Flateyjarbók. |
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Law, Scandinavian -- Sources.
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Law, Scandinavian. |
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Sagas.
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Sagas. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Miller, William Ian, 1946-
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| Added Title |
Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97023159 English.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka. English. Audun and the polar bear. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004168114 (DLC) 2008014093 (OCoLC)221960444 |
| ISBN |
9789047443445 (electronic book) |
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9047443446 (electronic book) |
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9789004168114 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004168117 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004168114.i-155 |
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