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* '''Key words''': history, social reality, law, sagnfræði, samfélagsmynd, lög [[Category:Social reality]][[Category:Law]][[Category:History]] ...

* '''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 ...

...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 ...

* '''Key words''': religion, history, law (trúarbrögð, sagnfræði, lög) ...s]][[Category:Authors]][[Category:Religion]][[Category:History]][[Category:Law]][[Category:All entries]] ...

* '''Key words''': history, law, religion, authorship (sagnfræði, lögfræði, trúarbrögð, höfundur) [[Category:Law]][[Category:Religion]] ...

...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. ...

* '''Key words''': law, social reality (lög, samfélagsmynd) [[Category:Law]][[Category:Social reality]] ...

* [[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). ...

* '''Key words''': Law, social reality (lög, samfélagsmynd) [[Category:Law]][[Category:Social reality]] ...

...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]] ...

* '''Key words''': social reality, law (samfélagsmynd, lög) [[Category:Social reality]][[Category:Law]] ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

* '''Key words''': history, social reality, law (sagnfræði, samfélagsmynd, lög) ...saga:_Articles]][[Category:History]][[Category:Social reality]][[Category:Law]][[Category:Authors]][[Category:All entries]] ...

...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 ...

* '''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 ...

...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, ...

...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, ...

* [[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]] ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

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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 ...

...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.'" ...

...-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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...iages are reflecting the “epic threefold repetition”. This repetition is a law of composition employed by Axel Olrik, indicating that the narrative materi ...

...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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"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." ...

...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 ...