Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices

by William Ian Miller

Book Overview

William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex issues with finely layered irony: who can one justifiably hit, when, and by what means? It does this with cool nuance, also taking on matters of torture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192855816
• ISBN13: 9780192855817
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"