03724nam 2200649 a 450 991045533010332120210622042604.01-282-39926-8978661239926890-474-4344-610.1163/ej.9789004168114.i-155(CKB)1000000000821861(EBL)468273(OCoLC)593231970(SSID)ssj0000334954(PQKBManifestationID)11256950(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334954(PQKBWorkID)10270977(PQKB)10489043(MiAaPQ)EBC468273(OCoLC)221960444(nllekb)BRILL9789047443445(PPN)184923964(Au-PeEL)EBL468273(CaPaEBR)ebr10363893(CaONFJC)MIL239926(EXLCZ)99100000000082186120080327d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAudun and the polar bear[electronic resource] luck, law, and largesse in a medieval tale of risky business /by William I. MillerLeiden ;Boston Brill20081 online resource (167 p.)Medieval law and its practice,1873-8176 ;v. 1Description based upon print version of record.90-04-16811-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-152) and index.Some technical matters : dates, origin, versions -- The story of Audun from the Westfjords (Audun's story) -- The commitment to plausibility -- Helping Thorir and buying the bear -- Dealing with King Harald -- Giving the bear to Svein : the interests in the bear -- Saying no to kings -- Eggs in one basket and market value -- Rome : self-impoverishment and self-confidence -- Repaying the bear -- Back to Harald : the yielding of accounts -- Audun's luck -- Richness and risk -- -- Motives -- Gaming the system : gift-ref -- Regiving and reclaiming gifts -- Relevant law -- Serious scarcity, self-interest and Audun's mother -- In the gift vs. in on the gift -- Gifts upward : repaying by receiving and funny money -- The obligation to accept -- Giving up and down hierarchies : of god(s), beggars, and equals -- Nadad and Abihu : sacrifice, caprice, and binding god and kings -- Funny money that is not so funny -- Of free and closing gifts -- Coda : the whiteness of the bear.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.Medieval law and its practice ;v. 1.Law, ScandinavianSourcesSagasElectronic books.Law, ScandinavianSagas.839/.63Miller William Ian1946-222661MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455330103321Audun and the polar bear2188518UNINA