Exploring the Literary Function of Law and Litigation in Njal's Saga

This paper argues that whether Njal's Saga (a medieval Icelandic family saga) accurately describes litigation or correctly identifies legal rules in medieval Iceland, those descriptions primarily serve a literary function. The author uses law and litigation to accelerate or retard the plot in o...

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Main Author: Ordower, Henry
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Scholarship Commons 1991
Subjects:
law and literature
medieval Iceland
family saga
saga
Law
Other Law
Iceland
Online Access:https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/faculty/474
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Other Law
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Exploring the Literary Function of Law and Litigation in Njal's Saga
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