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'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njals Saga
'Why is your axe bloody' A Reading of Njals Saga
Author: William Ian Miller
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198704843
ISBN-10: 0198704844
Publication Date: 9/17/2014
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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