Audun and the Polar Bear (Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business)
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Product Details
Author:
William I. Miller
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
156
Publisher:
Brill (July 25, 2008)
Imprint:
Brill
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9789004271937
ISBN-10:
9004271937
Weight:
9.76oz
Dimensions:
6.1" x 9.25" x 0.35"
File:
TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260319172121-20260320.xml
Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$45.00
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
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$42.75
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
H
Pub Discount:
35
Overview
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 story of complex competitive social action, revealing the cool wit and finely-calibrated reticence of its three main characters: Audun, Harald Hardradi, and King Svein. The tale should have much to engage legal and cultural historians, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and students of literature. The story’s treatment of gift-exchange is worthy of the fine anthropological and historical writing on gift-exchange; its treatment of face-to-face interaction a match for Erving Goffman.
