Laws of Early Iceland: Gragas I (Volume 2)

by: Andrew Dennis (Translator),Peter Foote(Translator),Richard Perkins(Translator)&0more

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press

Publication Date: 2007/1/15

Language: English

Print Length: 288 pages

ISBN-10: 0887556957

ISBN-13: 9780887556951

Book Description

The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

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The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.