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list price: $74.95
edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback
category: History
published: Nov 2000
ISBN:9780887551581
publisher: University of Manitoba Press

Laws of Early Iceland

Gragas II

translated by Andrew Dennis & Peter Foote

tagged: medieval, scandinavia, legal history
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, Laws of Early Iceland, is in two volumes.

About the Authors
Andrew Dennis has taught English at the University of Iceland and both English and Law at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

Peter Foote is Professor of Old Icelandic at University College London.
Editorial Review

“An amazing social document . . . that is the blueprint for an unprecedented social experiment. . . . An example of scholarship of the highest order.”

— American Journal of Legal History
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