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Bloodtaking and Peacemaking : Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland, Paperback / softback Book

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking : Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses.

William Miller's readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code aim to reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them.

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