'Why is your axe bloody?'

'Why is your axe bloody?'
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780191014918
ISBN-13 : 0191014915
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Book Synopsis 'Why is your axe bloody?' by : William Ian Miller

Download or read book 'Why is your axe bloody?' written by William Ian Miller and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nijáls saga the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated, Njal and his family burned to death in their farmhouse, the other faction picked off over the entire course of the feud. Law and feud feature centrally in the saga, Njál, its hero, being the greatest lawyer of his generation. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author's stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In 'Why is your axe bloody' W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely oriignal personal reading of this lengthy saga.


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