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  1. Audun and the polar bear
    luck, law, and largesse in a medieval tale of risky business
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    Erschienen: 2008
    Verlag:  Brill, Leiden

    Audun's Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature.... mehr

    Standort:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

     

    Audun's Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a story of complex competitive social action, revealing the cool wit and finely-calibrated reticence of its three main characters: Audun, Harald Hardradi, and King Svein. The tale should have much to engage legal and cultural historians, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and students of literature. The s

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Beteiligt: Miller, William Ian
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9004168117; 9789004168114
    Schriftenreihe: Medieval law and its practice ; v. 1
    Schlagworte: Sagas; Law, Scandinavian
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (xi, 155 p), 25 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-152) and index

    Contents ; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Story of Audun from the Westfjords (Audun's Story); PART ONE THE CLOSE COMMENTARY; The Commitment to Plausibility; Helping Thorir and Buying the Bear; Dealing with King Harald; Giving the Bear to Svein: The Interests in the Bear; Saying No to Kings; Eggs in One Basket and Market Value; Rome: Self-Impoverishment and Self-Confi dence; Repaying the Bear; Back to Harald: The Yielding of Accounts; PART TWO EXTENDED THEMES; Audun's Luck; Richness and Risk; Motives; Gaming the System: Gift-Ref; Regiving and Reclaiming Gifts

    Gifts Upward: Repaying by Receiving and Funny MoneyOf Free and Closing Gifts; Coda: The Whiteness of the Bear; Bibliography; Index

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