Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities
Hard Cases, Hard Choices
William Ian Miller
Table of Contents
Note to Readers
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Genealogies
Part I: Introduction
1. A Somewhat Querulous Introduction: Hrafnkel and the Critics
2. Of Names and Manageability
Part II. Economic, Social, and Geological Context
3. The Saga's Economics (ch. 14)
4. New-found Land and Setting up Households (chs. 1-2)
III. Horse, Vow, and Killing
5. Freysgodi, Frey, and Freyfaxi
6. The Ojafnadarmadr (the 'unevenman')
7. Sam, Einar, Hrafnkel (chs 3-6)
8. Freyfaxi and Hrafnkel: More on the Vow and its Price (chs 5-6)
9. Hrafnkel's Offer (ch. 7)
10. Thorbjorn's Rejection (ch. 7 cont.)
IV. Lawsuit ab ovo to 'Final' Settlement
11. Mustering Support and Going Public (ch. 7 cont.)
12. The Lawsuit: Preparatory Stages (chs 8-9)
13. Thorkel's Homily on Fellow-feeling and Commensurating Pain (ch. 10)
14. The trial (chs 11-12)
15. Hanging Upside-down and Sam's Self-judgment (ch. 13)
16. Farewell Freyfaxi and Frey (chs 15-16)
17. The 'True' Nature of Hrafnkel's Transformation (ch. 16)
V. Six Years Later
18. Eyvind Returns; a Gridkona Takes Over (ch. 17)
19. Who in Hell Are We Rooting For? (ch. 18)
20. Hrafnkel's Judgment and Justification (ch. 19)
21. Sam's Last Gasp (ch. 20)
22. Sam and Morpheus: What Counts as Taking a Turn
23. Conclusion: Hard cases, hard choices
Appendices
A. Hrafnkels saga Freysgodi, translation of MS AM 156, fol.
B. Glossary of Norse Terms
Works Cited
A.1 Hrafnkels saga, editions and translations consulted
A.2 Norse sources and translations
B. Secondary Works
Maps
Index