Gift, Sale, Payment, Raid: Case Studies in the Negotiation and Classification of Exchange in Medieval Iceland

• Main Author: Miller, William I.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository 1986
• Subjects: Iceland; Sagas; Personal property; History; Goods; Transfers; Gifts; Thefts; Property transfers; Law and literature; Comparative and Foreign Law; Law and Society; Legal History; Property Law and Real Estate
• Online Access: https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/850; https://repository.law.umich.edu/context/articles/article/1849/viewcontent/2854535.pdf

Near the end of Eyrbyggja saga Porir asks Ospak and his men where they had gotten the goods they were carrying. Ospak said that they had gotten them at Pambardal. "How did you come by them?" said Porir. Ospak answered, "They were not given, they were not paid to me, nor were they sold...