Laws Of Early Iceland
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Publisher | : Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1980-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0887553338 |
The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
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Publisher | : Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2000-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0887553346 |
The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
Author | : Andrew Dennis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
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Translation of laws dating from twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Author | : Jesse L. Byock |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1990-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520069541 |
Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.
Author | : William R. Short |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786447273 |
The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Author | : William Ian Miller |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226526828 |
Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a paradox in striking the balance—one could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. "Illuminating."—Rory McTurk, Times Literary Supplement "An impressive achievement in ethnohistory; it is an amalgam of historical research with legal and anthropological interpretation. What is more, and rarer, is that it is a pleasure to read due to the inclusion of narrative case material from the sagas themselves."—Dan Bauer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Author | : Jeffrey Love |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2020-06-10 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781783748167 |
Author | : Jesse Byock |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2001-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141937653 |
Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi-disciplinary work bringing together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas, this is a brilliant reconstruction of the inner workings of a unique and intriguing society.
Author | : Ari Thorgilsson Frodi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Iceland |
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Author | : Stephen Pax Leonard |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-06-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781118294963 |
Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland offers a much-needed exploration into the problem of linguistic and social identity construction in early Iceland, and is a fascinating account of an under examined historical-linguistic story that will spur further research and discussion amongst researchers. Engages with recent theoretical research on dialect formation and language isolation Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of dialect development, putting forward a persuasive hypothesis accounting for the lack of dialect variation in Icelandic Uses a unique, multi-disciplinary approach that brings together material from a wide range of fields for a comprehensive examination of the role of language in identity construction Opens up opportunities for further research, especially for those concerned with language and identity in Iceland today, where there is for the first time sociolinguistic variation