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Audun and the Polar Bear
William Ian Miller
其他書名
Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business
出版BRILL, 2008
主題History / MedievalLiterary Criticism / European / German
ISBN97890041681149004168117
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jJ96EelOBxYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Auduna (TM)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 storya (TM)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.