'Why is your axe bloody?': a reading of Njáls Saga
Njals 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 effec...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Njals 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, Njal, 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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| adam_text | WHY IS YOUR
AXE BLOODY?9
A READING OF NjALS SAGA
WILLIAM IAN MILLER
OXPORD
UNIVERSITYPR1SS
Contents
Abbreviations xxi
Note to Readers xxiii
Introduction i
Some Social Background 3
The Story in a Nutshell 8
Saga Narrative and the Motives of Characters 13
1 Njdla s Unity Problem and the Very Beginning: Chapter 1 15
2 Marriage Formation and Dissolution: Chapters 2-34 24
Case 1: Hrut and Unn 24
Case 2: Hallgerd and Thorvald, with Cameos by Skarphedin
and Thorhild, Grim and Astrid, and Helgi and Thorhalla 33
Case 3: Hallgerd and Glum (chapters 13-17) 44
3 Making a Scene: Chapters 34-5, 48 49
Thrain 51
Seating Arrangements 55
Wife-beating in Company 59
4 Looking Forward: Njal s Prescience: Chapters 22—3 62
Disenchantment 63
Das Monstrum arid the Future Tense 69
Prescient Coda 71
5 Bergthora vs Hallgerd, Part I The Theory: Chapters 35-45 73
The Balanced-Exchange Model and its Contradictions 75
Compensation and its Contradictions 79
The Model s Simplifications 86
XV111CONTENTS
6 Bergthora vs Hallgerd, Part II: Some Facts 88
Atli s Story (chapters 36—8) 88
Njala and Independent People 96
Thord Freedmansson (chapters 39- 43) 99
The Lethal Insults (chapters 44—5) 102
7 Otkel vs Gunnar: Chapters 46-56 109
The Theft 110
Gunnar s Lament 116
8 Gunnar vs the Thrihyrning People: Chapters 57—66 123
Njal as Banker and Lawyer 126
Paying for Those You Have a Right to Kill [31
9 The Two Thorgeirs and Death of Gunnar: Chapters 67—77 134
The Two Prongs of the Prophecy 136
Death of Gunnar [40
10 Revenge for Gunnar: Chapters 77—81 144
Gunnar and Envy Mismanagement 147
11 The Atlantic Interlude and Hrapp: Chapters 82-9 153
12 Setting up Thrain: Chapters 90-2 157
Dining with Runolf [61
13 A Tale of Two Hoskulds: Chapters 93—9 164
Amending the Constitution 168
Ly ting and the Breach of Father ai id Sons 169
14 Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100—6 178
Concerning Signs and Wonders 179
St Thorgeir the Lawspeaker 184
Before and After Conversion: Compare and Contrast 188
CONTENTSXIX
15 Valgard the Wise and Hoskuld s Blood: Chapters 107-16 194
Hoskuld Martyr 197
The Cloak and Holy Relics 200
16 Skarphedin Ascendans, Flosi s Ninth Nights: Chapters 117-23 207
Reintroducing Skarphedin 208
Backing Down Thorkel Hake 210
The Struggle for Settlement 212
Flosi Furioso 216
17 The Burning: Chapters 124-32 222
The Decision to Go Inside 225
Njal s Virtuoso Going to Bed for the Last Time 231
Skarphedin s Miracle 234
Flosi s Flinch 238
Thorhall Asgrimsson Hears of Njal s Death 240
Cleaning Up Some Leftovers 242
Coda: Exit Skarphedin and his Grins, Obit Njal 243
18 Preparation for the Next Althing: Chapters 132-7 248
Flosi and Support-mustering 249
Flosi Visits Asgrim, Chapter 136 257
19 The Trial of Flosi and the Battle: Chapt ers 135, 141-5 259
Law and its Limits 260
Some Procedural Matters, Chapters 135, 142 265
Three Lawmen 268
20 Kari and Friends: Chapters 145-55 276
Kari and Thorgeir 279
Bjorn of Mork and Kari 281
Kari vs Gunnar 284
Flosi and Kari 289
Kari and the Author 292
XXCONTENTS
21 How Not to End a Saga, Unless : Chapters 146—59 294
22 A Conclusion: Justice and Exits 301
Works Cited 309
Maps 319
Genealogies 321
Index 325
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