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...cs. Miller then continues to justify Njáll‘s manipulation of the Icelandic law system and creation of the Fifth Court as consistent with his behavior as a * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

...a trial in Njáls saga and a scene from the American crime procedural drama Law & Order. This logical template is shown to then permeate many aspects of th ...

...to the letter, the author is distinguishing between written and practiced law. Miller discusses Njáll‘s function as a banker of sorts, collecting debt * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

...Kristjánsson puts forward grammatical arguments, amongst others Craigie´s law and the recent theories of Haraldur Bernharðsson that states that the soun ...

* '''Key words''': runes, law, religion (rúnir, lög, trúarbrögð) ...:Egils saga]][[Category:Egils saga:_Articles]][[Category:Runes]][[Category:Law]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:Authors]][[Category:All entries]] ...

Mord Valgard's son stood next to Gizur his father-in-law, he was of all men the readiest-tongued. ...s suit for manslaughter in the Quarter Court into which this suit ought by law to come. I give notice of this lawful notice; I give notice in the hearing ...

[[Egla,_44|Chapter 44]]: '''reist á rúnar''': "The runic law evidenced here reminds one of various comments in Eddic poetry, specificall ...

...mainly the aristocracy which engaged in the practice of the duel, just as law in general benefited and upheld the mighty. Nevertheless, the common man, a ...

...eaker of the law, and gave him three marks of silver (2) to utter what the law should be, but still that was most hazardous counsel, since he was an heath ...tters were come to a dead lock, if we are not all to have one and the same law; for if there be a sundering of the laws, then there will be a sundering of ...

...h Njal long after. He loved Njal more than his own father. Njal taught him law, so that he became the greatest lawyer in Iceland in those days. ...

...rogress of medieval Icelandic culture from an honor-centered pagan past to law-focused and orderly Christian future. ...

"I will grant it thee, father-in-law," said Flosi, "for that alone wilt thou ask which will make my honour great ...," said Flosi, "that I will do according to the word of Hall, my father-in-law, and other of the worthiest men, that he and others of the best men on each ...

...in the family and contemporary sagas, as well as drawing on the ''Grágás'' law code, to explore 13th-century attitudes to the problem of male sexuality. S ...

...not get them back, and yet he was a great lawyer, but I know little about law." She answered, "Hrut pushed that matter through rather by boldness than by law; besides, my father was old, and that was why men thought it better not to ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

* [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...

..., where the practices are explained with indications on customs or the old law from the time of the sagas, on the other hand in words and actions of perso ...

...aphorically the extinguishing of the light of Njáll’s eyes, the process of law is once again incapacitated, and the resulting courthearing reaches deadloc ...

Earl Sigurd bade to his feast at Yule Earl Gilli, his brother- in-law, out of the Southern isles; he had to wife Swanlauga, Earl Sigurd's sister; ...t if they misbehaved themselves oftener, then he let them be judged by the law; and from this one may mark what a king he must have been. ...

...be foredoomed that this faith shall make its way, then it will be taken as law at the Althing, and then all the chiefs out of the districts will be there. ...k," says Gest, "though it may be fated that others shall make Christianity law; but it is here as the saying runs, 'No tree falls at the first stroke.'" ...