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  • * '''Title''': Law in Njáls saga ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature'' 3, 1 ...: Slusher, Jeffrey L. "Runic Wisdom in "Njal's Saga." ''Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature'' 3, 1 (1991): 21-39. ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • * '''Title''': Conflict, Cooperation and Consensus in the Law of Njáls saga * '''Reference''': Avis, Robert. "Conflict, Cooperation and Consensus in the Law of Njáls saga." ''Quaestio insularis'' 12 (2012): 85-108. ...
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  • * '''Title''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Michigan Law Review'' 89.8 * '''E-text''': [http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1204&context=articles umich.edu] ...
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  • * '''Title''': Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case * '''Reference''': Friedman, David. "Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case." ''The Journal of Legal Studies'' 8, 2 (1979): 399-415. ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Law and History Review'' 1.2 ...Avenger: Some Aspects of the Bloodfeud in Medieval Iceland and England." ''Law and History Review'' 1.2 (1983): 159-204. ...
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  • * '''Title''': Law and Legal Process * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • * '''Title''': Exploring the Literary Function of Law and Litigation in "Njal's Saga." * '''Published in''': ''Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature'' 3, 1 ...
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  • ...stency and discordances with actual Old Icelandic law. Examining the three law-men Eyjólfr, Mörðr, and Þórhallr, Miller looks at the different legal * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * '''Key words''': speech acts theory, performative speech acts, law and saga studies, legal declarative speech acts, Njáls saga ...eech acts in legal matters works either as a distorted way of handling the law, according to the former approach, or as the first signs of the development ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • * '''Key words''': literary elements, law, social reality, characterization (bókmenntaleg einkenni, lög, samfélags ...which imbue this ‘collective biography’. Light is first cast on hereditary law and social relations, with particular attention to the warden-ward and the ...
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  • * '''Key words''': social reality, law (samfélagsmynd, lög) [[Category:Social reality]][[Category:Law]] ...
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  • * '''Key words''': history, social reality, law, sagnfræði, samfélagsmynd, lög [[Category:Social reality]][[Category:Law]][[Category:History]] ...
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  • * '''Published in''': ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law and Society in Saga Iceland'' * '''Reference''': Miller, William Ian. ''Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 ...
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  • ...searching in law codes, since there is not much information in Anglo-Saxon law about the status of thieves. Andersson compares this with ''Grágás'' wher ...
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  • * '''Key words''': religion, history, law (trúarbrögð, sagnfræði, lög) ...s]][[Category:Authors]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:History]][[Category:Law]][[Category:All entries]] ...
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  • * '''Key words''': history, law, religion, authorship (sagnfræði, lögfræði, trúarbrögð, höfundur) [[Category:Law]][[Category:Religion]] ...
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  • ...nst Gunnar Hamond's son; for that he rushed with an onslaught laid down by law on Thorgeir Otkell's son, and wounded him with a body wound, which proved a ...eited, half to me and half to the men of the Quarter, whose right it is by law to seize the goods of outlaws. ...
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  • * '''Key words''': law, social reality (lög, samfélagsmynd) [[Category:Law]][[Category:Social reality]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...d be a kind of higher aesthetic justice served by avenging such as he, the law be damned. “ (p. 145). ...
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  • * '''Key words''': Law, social reality (lög, samfélagsmynd) [[Category:Law]][[Category:Social reality]] ...
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  • ...ks at the marriages described in these chapters as study cases for marital law in Iceland. He discusses the legal issues that surrounds Hrútr and Unnr’ * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * '''Key words''': social reality, law (samfélagsmynd, lög) [[Category:Social reality]][[Category:Law]] ...
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  • ...ich had been tried at the Gula-thing. He then begged the king to grant him law in this matter. ...n finding a strong, benign and paternal figure in the king, a king to give law, favour, praise and reward - all of which, despite his family's virtual feu ...
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  • ...a hearing, and asked all the best men who were come thither, what right at law they thought Gunnar had against those namesakes for their treason. They sai ...se” Njal proposes, but apparently only by the Christian alternative to the Law: grace, mercy, and forgiveness.” [[Bredsdorff, Thomas. Speech Act Theory ...
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  • * '''Key words''': history, social reality, law (sagnfræði, samfélagsmynd, lög) ...saga:_Articles]][[Category:History]][[Category:Social reality]][[Category:Law]][[Category:Authors]][[Category:All entries]] ...
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  • ...s are written down to the middle of the 13th century. The procedure in the law-suit after the arson at Bergþórhvoll shows that the author wanted to crea ...
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  • * '''Title''': Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6 ...nverted Iceland, Miller argues, but rather the Icelanders’ respect for the law, represented by Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði. He then moves on to argue tha ...
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  • ...use his sword against his attackers, he made him an embodiment of the new law in action. Höskuldr rejects the old code of 'eye for eye, tooth for tooth, ...
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  • ...use his sword against his attackers, he made him an embodiment of the new law in action. Höskuldr rejects the old code of 'eye for eye, tooth for tooth, ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] * [[Miller, William Ian. Bloodtaking and peacemaking: Feud, law, and society in Saga Iceland]] ...
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  • ...house. Balchin begins by giving a bit of background information about how law functioned in medieval Iceland so that he can later argue that most of the ...
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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]] ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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]] ...
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  • ...Kristjánsson puts forward grammatical arguments, amongst others Craigie´s law and the recent theories of Haraldur Bernharðsson that states that the soun ...
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  • * '''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]] ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • [[Egla,_44|Chapter 44]]: '''reist á rúnar''': "The runic law evidenced here reminds one of various comments in Eddic poetry, specificall ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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. ...
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  • ...rogress of medieval Icelandic culture from an honor-centered pagan past to law-focused and orderly Christian future. ...
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  • "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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • * [[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]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • ..., 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 ...
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  • ...aphorically the extinguishing of the light of Njáll’s eyes, the process of law is once again incapacitated, and the resulting courthearing reaches deadloc ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • ...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.'" ...
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  • ...-law. He was slow to take the duty on him, and said it was harder to go to law with Flosi than with any other ten men. ...next of kin. Thou handest it over to me by law, and I take it from thee by law." ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • ...iages are reflecting the “epic threefold repetition”. This repetition is a law of composition employed by Axel Olrik, indicating that the narrative materi ...
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  • ...agan ethics are influenced by the doctrine of Natural Religion and Natural Law, as seen in the Prose Edda; the presence of ethical pagan ancestors arguabl ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • "That is right and good law," says Mord, "but how does the matter stand if Gunnar has laid the slaying "Thou speakest nothing but what is law," says Mord, "though it is hard to abide by it." ...
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  • ...e his sword against his attackers, he made of him an embodiment of the new law in action. Höskuldr rejects the old code of ‘eye for eye, tooth for toot ...e his sword against his attackers, he made of him an embodiment of the new law in action. Höskuldr rejects the old code of ‘eye for eye, tooth for toot ...
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  • ...n finding a strong, benign and paternal figure in the king, a king to give law, favour, praise and reward - all of which, despite his family's virtual feu ...
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  • ...of Thorod. That father and son were great chiefs, and very well skilled in law. Thorod was thought to be rather crafty and guileful. They stood by Gizur t ...I have a right to forbid thee by the common custom of the Thing and by the law of the land. ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • ...ulating society while men side with new ideas about a society in which the law and agreements prevail. This division mirrors a transitional time in Icelan ...
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  • ...I do not think your claim to the ownership of that property is against the law of the land; yet methinks the property is now come into strong keeping. The 'Yet,' said Egil, 'my mind is that, if we have law to show, we should try. Maybe the king will grant us right in this, for I a ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • ...the risk with the force that we have. Ye must go with your weapons to all law-business, but not fight as things stand." ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • ...the Conversion. " [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] (p. 189).</ref> ...the Conversion. " [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] (s. 189).</ref> ...
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  • ...mbat on the island, Wolf Uggis' son, if men are not to get their rights by law; and Njal and my friend Helgi would like that I should take some share in d ...
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  • "I will follow up thy suit," said Flosi, "to the utmost limit of the law, or strive for that atonement which good men and true shall say that we oug ...in which it is possible to achieve redress for a killing: by means of the law, by a private settlement (both mentioned by Flosi) and by means of blood ve ...
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  • ...matter, and it behoves us who know the law, and who are bound to guide the law, to set men at one again, and to ensue peace. 'Twere good counsel, then, me ...he Court of Laws are not agreed as to what they shall allow or bring in as law, then they shall clear the court for a division, and the majority shall bin ...
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  • * [[Miller, William Ian. Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6]] ...
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  • ...have a right to forbid you by the common custom of the Althing, and by the law of the land." ...
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  • ...gave notice of the suit in the quarter Court into which the suit ought by law to come; I gave notice of that lawful notice; I gave notice in the hearing ...gave notice of the suit in the Quarter Court into which the suit ought by law to come; I gave notice of that lawful notice; I gave notice in the hearing ...
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  • ...d be a kind of higher aesthetic justice served by avenging such as he, the law be damned." [[Miller, William Ian. Revenge for Gunnar: Chapters 77–81]] ( ...d be a kind of higher aesthetic justice served by avenging such as he, the law be damned." [[Miller, William Ian. Revenge for Gunnar: Chapters 77–81]] ( ...
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  • "New priesthoods," answers Mord, "have been set up here, and a law for a Fifth Court, and men have declared themselves out of my Thing, and ha ...
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  • ...oods. Thorarin's surname was Ragi's brother; he had the Speakership of the Law after Rafn Heing's son. He was a very wise man, and lived at Varmalek, and ...de, and willfulness." [[Ordower, Henry. Exploring the Literary Function of Law and Litigation in "Njal's Saga."]] (p. 45). </ref> ...
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  • ...in which it is possible to achieve redress for a killing: by means of the law, by a private settlement (both mentioned by Flosi) and by means of blood ve ...
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  • ...lsnati had taken the life of Havard in Thraswick, Earl Sigurd's brother-in-law. So Arnljot sent word to Earl Sigurd to come south with a great host and dr ...
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  • ...ful, of Otterdale (1). Eyjolf was a man of great rank, and best skilled in law of all men, so that some said he was the third best lawyer in Iceland. He w ...ment, and that is not a bad choice, but the other is to defend the suit at law, if there be any defence to it, though that will seem to be a bold course; ...
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  • ...rama of the episode." [[Ordower, Henry. Exploring the Literary Function of Law and Litigation in "Njal's Saga."]] (p. 50). </ref> and afterwards men rode ...rama of the episode." [[Ordower, Henry. Exploring the Literary Function of Law and Litigation in "Njal's Saga."]] (s. 50). </ref> Riðu menn síðan heim ...
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  • ...mmon this cause before the Fifth Court, whither the cause ought to come by law; I summon it to be pleaded now and to full outlawry. I summon with a lawful ...l you out and set you aside by the rightful custom of the Althing, and the law of the land." ...
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  • ...s belonged to Thora; and thereafter Thorir and Bjorn were good brothers-in-law and friends. Bjorn then stayed at home at Aurland with Brynjolf, Thorolf al ...
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  • ...en my property by force of arms. I have the king's leave herein to try the law with you in this cause. I summon you to the Gula-thing, there to have lawfu ...ould not accept Atli's oaths for his own property. 'I will offer you other law, that we do battle here at the Thing, and he shall have the property who wi ...
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  • ...done; and they were of one mind that the quarrel should be followed up at law. Then some one was sought who would take the suit up, but no one was ready ...
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  • ...a very hearty welcome, and Flosi said to Hall, "I will ask thee, father-in-law, that thou wouldst ride to the Thing with me with all thy Thingmen." ...t that," says Saurli, "so long as I do not know on which side my father-in-law Gudmund the Powerful stands, for I mean to stand by him on whichever side h ...
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  • After that they went to the High Court, where Fiddle Mord was laying down the law as was his wont, and after he had done he went home to his booth. ..."I have a bargain to speak to thee about; Hrut wishes to become thy son-in-law, and buy thy daughter, and I, for my part, will not be sparing in the matte ...
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  • ...the money, and promised his help; he was to strengthen Steinar to take the law of Thorstein. Then Steinar rode home. ...d claimed lesser outlawry as the penalty of each slaying. For this was the law, when thralls of anyone were slain, and the fine for the thrall was not bro ...
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  • ...n by thy side as thy wife, when thou wilt not dare to follow thy father-in-law, and thou must be a coward," she says. ...
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  • ...s, that he who had given notice of the suit was truly under the ban of the law, and was himself an outlaw. ...
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  • "'True enough,' Hrut will say. 'I said so, and that passed for law among foolish men; but the suit might have been taken up again at another T Then he will ask, 'Dost thou know anything about law?' ...
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  • ...ow in possession. I know that, if a message of yours be added, I shall get law in this matter.' ...
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  • ...d he said little about it. He sent word to Hall of the Side, his father-in-law, and to Ljot his son, that they must gather in a great company at the Thing ...
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  • ...aphorically the extinguishing of the light of Njáll’s eyes, the process of law is once again incapacitated, and the resulting courthearing reaches deadloc ...aphorically the extinguishing of the light of Njáll’s eyes, the process of law is once again incapacitated, and the resulting courthearing reaches deadloc ...
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  • ...s were Ragi in Hot-spring-dale, and Thorarin, Ragi's brother, who took the law-speakership next after Hrafn Hængsson. Thorarin dwelt at Warm-brook; he ha ...
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  • ...his meaning that Eyjolf Bolverk's son must be meant to defend the suit at law, and that the ring must have been given him for that." ...st be so. Then Gizur spoke to them, "Now has Mord Valgard's son, my son-in-law, undertaken a suit, which all must think most hard, to prosecute Flosi; and ...
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  • ...problem is one with the law, or because the law is corrupt, or because the law is stupid, but because the problem is political and institutional (or more ...tten before, he was in the battle with Gudmund the Powerful, his father-in-law, and as soon as Skapti knew that, he went to the booth of Snorri the Priest ...
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  • ...y plain that Thrain thought I set too great store on being your brother-in-law." ...ong in secret, Njal and his sons, and Kari Solmund's son, their brother-in-law. ...
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  • Just then Gunnar heard of the death of his father-in-law Hauskuld; a few nights after, Thorgerda, Thrain's wife, was delivered at Gr ...
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  • Flosi would not stay to meet Hall his father-in-law, for he knew of a surety that Hall would set his face against all strong de ...ng and his sons. They were at home that summcr. Njal asked Kari his son-in-law whether he thought at all of riding east to Dyrholms to his own house. ...
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  • ...home east, and then Hall said to Flosi, "Keep this atonement well, son-in-law, both as to going abroad and the pilgrimage to Rome (1), and the fines, and ...
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  • ...e also Aunund and Steinar, Tongue-Odd and Einar, and company. And when the law pleadings were finished, then stood up Egil and spoke thus: 'Are Steinar an ...
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  • ..., Vestar; they all had land. Hrafn was Hæing's fifth son. He was the first law-man in Iceland; he dwelt at Hofi after his father, and was the most renowne ...
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  • ...all the property owned by Bjorn had been taken up by Bergonund, his son-in-law, who had moved to his own home all loose chattels, letting out the lands, a ...matter, and with your help it seems no great thing in my eyes to take the law of Bergonund.' ...
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  • ...d," Thorir Easterling, "when thou sittest by; but thy host, and father-in- law Egil, is slain." ...
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  • This arrangement he made fast, as the law was, with the leave of the king. Then Bard died, and was buried, and his de ...the fall of many men whom Sigurd knew well, and withal how Bard his son-in-law had died of wounds received in the battle. This they both felt to be a grea ...
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  • After that Bergthora told her sons and her son-in-law Kari, and they talked long and low about the matter. ...sees that his sons are all there with their weapons, and Kari, his son-in-law too. Skarphedinn was foremost. He was in a blue cape, and had a targe, and ...
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  • Then Ljot came forward on the field and declared the law of combat, that he should ever after bear the name of dastard who should dr ...d he who slew him in the combat should take his inheritance. This was also law, that if a foreigner died who had no heir in the land, then that inheritanc ...
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  • ...after, and now he can use this first step in the suit, and it is right in law." ...
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  • ...e to talk with Thrain Sigfus' son, and said, "I would think thee my son-in-law indeed," she says, "if thou slayest Thord Freedmanson." ...
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  • ...king's share, and each of his men as much as two Kvens. With the Kvens the law was that the king should have one-third as compared with his men when the b ...
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  • ...marks. He laid the suit in the Quarter Court, into which it would come by law, and gave lawful notice, so that all who stood on the Hill of Laws might he ...
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  • ...d. He took the horn, scratched runes<ref>'''scratched runes''': "The runic law evidenced here reminds one of various comments in Eddic poetry, specificall ...Hann tók við horninu og reist á rúnar<ref>'''reist á rúnar''': "The runic law evidenced here reminds one of various comments in Eddic poetry, specificall ...
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  • ...t hold of him, and dragged him out, he asked carefully after his father-in-law Njal, but the steward told him the whole truth. Then Kettle said, "Great gr "It joys me, brother-in-law," says Skarphedinn, "to think that if thou gettest away thou wilt avenge me ...
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  • And with that he tore himself from his brothers, and Kari his brother-in-law, and strode forward to Thorkel. ...
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  • Then he said to Kari, "Let us stand by one another well, brother- in-law, so that neither parts from the other." ...
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  • ...housekeeping to Thorstein, and went south to Moss-fell to Grim, his son-in-law, for he loved Thordis<ref>'''he loved Thordis''': "Hvergi er sterkar að or ...
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  • ...gone away, "All men know that I have taken no atonement for my brother-in-law Thrain, and I shall never be content that no vengeance--man for man--shall ...
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  • Grim of Moss-fell was baptized when Christianity was established by law in Iceland. He had a church built there, and 'tis common report that Thordi ...
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  • "They all fell there," says Hrafn, "but thy brother-in-law Thorstein took peace from Kerthialfad, and is now with him." ...
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  • ...ould ask of thee," said Asgrim, "that thou wouldst grant me and my sons-in-law help. ...
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  • ...acon had by far the larger numbers; the reason of this was that he made it law in the land that every man should own his patrimony, where king Harold had ...slander of bad men, for no crime at all. And thou, O king, didst break the law in Egil's case for the sake of Bergonund; nay further thou didst wish to do ...
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  • 'Law-breaker, land-demon, <br> ...
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