Audun and the polar bear : luck, law, and largesse in a medieval tale of risky business /
"Audun's Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a s...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Old Norse |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Medieval law and its practice ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
