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Paperback Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices Book

ISBN: 0192855816

ISBN13: 9780192855817

Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices

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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...

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