Njal's Saga (Classics)

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Njal's Saga

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Njals Saga

Njal's Saga (Classics)
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the only translation to read of Njals saga.......2005-09-28

Njals saga is one of the great works of world literature, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as the Iliad, King Lear, the Divine Comedy, and Don Quixote. It toughminded, witty, socially and politically astute and has the best tough guy in all literature, even beating out Achilles and Beowulf: Skarphedin Njalsson. For some inexplicable reason Penguin retired this brilliant, not to be surpassed, translation of Magnus Magnusson with a rather lame effort with nothing to recommend it. To get the real feel for this saga, read the Magnusson translation.

Njal's Saga.......2005-07-07

This translation of the famous Icelandic saga was extremely readable and was helped by having geneologies in the back as well as a glossary of the main characters, listing each of the chapters in which they appeared and a one or two word summary of what they did in that chapter. Since many of the characters have the same names, that is helpful. I had another version and it was not anywhere as readable.

Ian Myles Slater on: A Reliable, Readable, Option.......2005-01-10

This is a highly readable translation (although not the only one) of a work of literature that has several familiar names. In full, it is "Brennu-Njals Saga," or "The Story of Burned Njal," but just plain "Njals-Saga" is equally correct. And, like several other sagas, it has a nickname in its native Iceland, "Njala" (like "Grettla," for "Grettir's Saga"). It is generally conceded to be the outstanding monument of a burst of literary productivity at the very edge of medieval European civilization. For those who know it, with its unforgettable portraits of men and women presented through their responses to the events that entangle them, it has a place alongside the great novels of modern Europe. It demands patience of the reader; although it starts off with a couple of resounding scandals, including a Queen-Mother's affair with a handsome Icelander, before plunging into disputes over property, and who stole the hay, and wise advice that is never followed. (There are certain resemblances to Westerns; including the problem of subsistence in an unforgiving environment, and the critical importance of a reputation.)

Magnus Magnussson and Hermann Palsson made the decision to give a plain-language version, which I think has stood up well for over forty years (first published 1960). On my first reading I found the Introduction, Genealogical Tables, Glossary of Proper Names, Note on Chronology, and maps, all very useful. It has been supplanted in the Penguin Classics list by a new translation by Robert Cook, but I hope that this older version will continue to remain available. (Penguin sometimes has two, or even three, translations of a given work in circulation.)

"Njal's Saga" is, like several others, a long account of cascading disputes between farmers, and the resulting fights and lawsuits, broken up with voyages and adventures in Viking-Age Europe. (There are a great many shorter ones on the same basic pattern, generally less complex and diverse.) "Njala" includes a famous account of the official conversion of Iceland to Christianity, and a description of the Battle of Clontarf in Ireland, just over a decade later -- both apparently drawn from pre-existing accounts, and both inserted into the sequence of events quite naturally, although possibly with some violence to chronology.

The co-translators' most dramatic departure from the Icelandic text was the decision to relegate most genealogical descriptions of characters to footnotes. Many chapters begin something like "There was a man named A who lived at B. He was the son of C, son of D, son of E, who was the first who came to B, and he was the son of F, son of G, the kinsman of ..." Those of us who persist in reading the major sagas will soon learn to decipher such passages to mean either, "A came from a famous family, and would have many allies in a dispute," or "A was a complete nobody, whose most notable ancestors were famed only for being violent and unreasonable." Until then, these paragraph-long descriptions are just a jumble of names -- there is a "Monty Python" routine based on that impression, which is very, very funny if you know the sagas; and, I am told, amusing anyway if you don't.

"Njala" has had a long series of translations from its original Old Icelandic into other languages -- there is a whole book on its "reception" into other literatures, "The Rewriting of Njals Saga: Translation, Ideology, and Icelandic Sagas," by Jon Karl Helgason. And it bulks large in Andrew Wawn's "The Vikings and the Victorians,' because it received a magnificent first translation into English, by George Webbe Dasent, "The Story of Burnt Njal, or, Life in Iceland at the End of the Tenth Century," pubished in 1861. Dasent had begun work in 1843, but the whole subject was still so unfamiliar that Dasent, probably wisely, spent a good part of the two-volume first edition just explaining medieval Iceland to his readers. This material was dumped in later, one-volume editions of Dasent's translation, including the Everyman's Library reprint of 1911, which got a new introduction and select bibliography by E.O.G. Turville-Petre in 1957. It was available in paperback in the 1970s, in competition with the Penguin Classics translation.

Dasent's "Burnt Njal" has many merits, even today. Unfortunately, between Dasent's decision to imitate the Icelandic vocabulary and sentences, and changes in English since the 1850s, many will find his prose indigestible; and the 1772 edition of the saga he was using is now *very* obsolete. For those who want a look, there is an HTML edition on-line; the translator's name is there given as DaSent. Modern readers can turn to Jesse Byock's "Viking Age Iceland" for an equivalent of Dasent's introduction and appendices, with their maps and diagrams; it is much more readable, as well as much more reliable. And I would certainly make the suggestion of Magnusson and Palsson as a better place to start with Njal and his associates.

Another alternative is the American-Scandinavian Foundation's 1955 "Njal's Saga," translated by Carl F. Bayerschmidt and Lee M. Hollander. For American readers it had the slight advantage of not being quite so British in tone as the Penguin translation (let alone the mid-Victorian Dasent!); but it seems to have been available in recent years only in a 1998 paperback from a British publisher, in the "Wordsworth Classics of World Literature" series, with a new introduction by Thorsteinn Gylfason. It too has maps, family trees, and notes.

There is a substantial critical literature on "Njal's Saga," some of it in English. Richard F. Allen's old "Fire and Iron: Critical Approaches to Njals Saga" is very literary in approach. Jesse Byock's "Feud in the Icelandic Saga," which argues that behavior in the sagas reflects real social patterns, has thirty pages on this saga (Chapter 9, "Two Sets of Feud Chains"), which I think are brilliant; but probably most helpful to those who already know the story, and can appreciate how he makes connections between scattered-looking events.

For those who find "Njala" a bit too long to start with, there are variety of other sagas in excellent translations -- and also some not-so-good translations. Going strictly by the sagas themselves, other good places to start would be "Laxdaela Saga," which shares some important characters, scenes and events with "Njala," "Grettir's Saga," the story of a famous outlaw, with some wonderful accounts of battles with supernatural as well as human enemies; and "Egil's Saga" (Egils Saga Skallagrimssonar; "Egla" for short), which is closer to the popular idea of an Icelandic saga. The hero is a warrior-poet, brilliant, bad-tempered, and remarkably ugly; he takes after his grandfather, who was nicknamed "Evening-Wolf," and suspected of being a shape-shifter, and Egil spends much of his time on Viking adventures abroad, instead of tending the flocks ... .

Incidentally, "Njala," "Laxdaela," and "Egla" all contribute, along with the master-narrative of Snorri Sturluson's "Heimskringla" (a long saga-history of the Kings of Norway) to the late Poul Anderson's fine historical novel, "Mother of Kings," which is another approach to the world of the sagas.

Repetitive, but worth a read if that's your thing.......2004-04-21

What can you say about this saga? As a work of historical fiction it is fairly decent, though some of the factual evidence is in question. The translaters do a good job of pointing out inconsistencies based upon other Icelandic sagas, and overall it could be acceptable as fact and citable in research papers. If nothing else, Njal's Saga gives us valuable insight into Icelandic life during the 12th century.

This is an entertaining, if somewhat repetitive, read. There are elements of humor within Njal's Saga that will occasionally inspire a chuckle or two. Most often these are incorporated via insult shortly before an individual buries his axe in the head of another individual. In all likelihood, these weren't intended to be humorous, but reading it in the twentieth century makes it so.

This is the story of a feud between several families and the Njal family, whose proud patriarch was supposedly one of the "three best lawyers in Iceland" at the time. Essentially, his notoriety and good fortune incurs the ire of the surrounding nobles. His sons warlike attitudes further this animosity and Njal is burned alive in his home. I'm sorry if I spoiled the ending for you, but the translators actually do it in the notes, and it is a story that took place 800 years ago, if you didn't realize he was going to die by now...

I wouldn't really call this a must read. If you are interested in Icelandic history, folklore, or just want to check out something different, then you should probably read it. Otherwise, you might get bored with the constant murdering then settlements at the annual Althing. I mean that's pretty much what happens each chapter.

Njals Saga.......2004-02-15

Yet another great Icelandic saga. Much of the usual sort that you would expect in these sagas. Blood fueds, witchy supernatural prophecies coming true, coniving women, outlawry, and more blood fueds. What could you expect in a society where one was almost obligated to kill someone for even the slightest insult or to not would mean losing ones honor and respect? Also provides a look at the legal system of Iceland during this time period, (you could more or less legally kill someone as long as you had the money to compensate their family) and an account of the Icelanders gradual conversion to christianity.

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A gripping story of violence, revenge, and ultimately, forgiveness.
Don't dismiss Cook's translation out of hand...
Great work, wrong translation...
One of the great works of literature, awful translation
A classic saga

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ASIN: 0140447695
Release Date: 2002-05-28

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Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior with an aversion to killing, and the not-so-villainous Mord Valgardsson. Full of dreams, strange prophecies, violent power struggles, and fragile peace agreements, Njal's Saga tells the compelling story of a fifty-year blood feud that, despite its distance from us in time and place, is driven by passions familiar to us all. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction, chronology, index of characters, plot summary, explanatory notes, maps, and suggestions for further reading.

Translated and edited by Robert Cook.

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A gripping story of violence, revenge, and ultimately, forgiveness........2007-01-30

Njal's Saga is an Icelandic saga by an unknown author, supposedly written around 1280 A.D. The story tells of an unending spiral of feuds and vengeance, leading eventually to the burning of a farmstead at Bergotha in Iceland, which killed the head of the household, Njal, his wife, and a number of his sons. There are several main characters. In the first half, a man named Gunnar, who is a great warrior and often champions underdogs in legal disputes, not infrequently by challenging the other party in the dispute to a duel, causing them to concede or settle rather than face him. Gunnar fought a notable fight against attackers who greatly outnumbered him, which is mentioned in a number of other sources and was apparently a true and famous event. The burning of Njal in his farm is also a historically documented event.

Eventually Gunnar is killed by a coalition of his enemies, and his death is then avenged by the sons of Njal (Gunnar and Njal were close friends), which leads to another escalating round of killings, that concludes with the burning of Njal and his farm.

The final section of the saga concerns the efforts of Kari, Njal's son-in-law and the only survivor of the attack on and burning of Njal's farm, to avenge the burning by tracking down and killing many of the members of the burning-party.

The saga is a powerful, building story, even by modern standards. It also provides much detail about legal proceedings in Iceland, particularly cases brought over killings, contains brief mentions of legendary Viking leader Ragnar Logbrod and several of this sons, and also contains a number of very detailed, vivid descriptions of combat as fought during the Viking period.

Don't dismiss Cook's translation out of hand..........2006-10-29

I recently became interested in Norse mythology, and after acquiring a number of books on the subject my interest spilled over into Norse, particularly Icelandic, sagas. I bought the hefty Penguin "The Sagas of Icelanders", and since all the reviewers for it lamented the exclusion (understandably, for space reasons) of Njal's Saga, I bought that separately, and I've just finished reading it.

I bought this translation, Cook's. There seemed to be two main choices, this or Magnus Magnusson's, and I noticed a few reviewers quite bluntly trashing Cook's translation, promoting Magnus's instead. I decided to start with Cook's anyway, figuring that, even if it was inferior to Magnusson's, I wouldn't know what I was missing, since I hadn't yet read Magusson's. Admittedly, I still haven't read Magnusson's translation, but I enjoyed Cook's translation very much and did not by any means think of it as lacking.

In fact, in Cook's notes on the translation presented in the book, he explains his motivation and justification for translating the saga the way he did, in a way that seems to anticipate the disfavor of his translation by loyal Magnusson fans:

"[This translation] differs from previous translations of Njal's Saga...in attempting to duplicate the sentence structure and spare vocabulary of the Icelandic text."

After giving a few examples of the stylistic eccentricities in which the saga was originally written and demonstrating how he attempted to reproduce them in his translation--even contrasting an excerpt of Magnusson's translation with his own--he goes on to say:

"It is hoped that the reader of this translation will accept--and even learn to enjoy--these and other efforts at fidelity, though they may seem strange at first. The intent has been to create a translation with the stylistic "feel" of the Icelandic original."

Clearly, Cook did not set out to create a dry, inferior translation; rather he set out to create a more stylistically faithful translation, even if it meant sacrificing some of the flare and drama to which we as modern readers are accustomed.

Regarding the story itself...what can one say? There is something immensely powerful about reading a piece of literature that was written over seven centuries ago and discovering that its author and the people about whom he wrote had many of the same thoughts, feelings, and problems that we do today. When a character responds emotionally to a situation, or feels frustrated because of a moral dilemma, we can still, despite the vast chasm of time separating us, so easily relate to him or her. Even the author's humor and wit are delightfully close to home. Stories such as Njal's Saga remind us that people from long ago and far away are just that: people. Just like us. In a popular culture that has a tendency to glorify the ephemeral, trendy Here and Now, it's a fact that's easy to forget.

Great work, wrong translation..........2005-11-21

I agree with the reviewer below -- Njal's Saga is an amazing piece of work, but Cook's translation is garbage. Track down the Magnusson edition.

One of the great works of literature, awful translation.......2005-09-07

Njal's saga ranks with the all time great works of world literature, but you will not see why reading this translation. If you can dig up the earlier Penguin translation by Magnus Magnusson, read that version, which though published in 1960 is written in a much tighter and contemporary style and is more accurate to boot. Get it out of the library. Or hunt down a used copy. It captures the saga wit and just makes better sense of the complex action.

A classic saga.......2005-05-22

Njal's saga is a story of relationships. Imagine Iceland about 1000 A.D. Winter is long. Your relationships with other people, friends, enemies, wives, in-laws, sons and daughters, foster sons and daughters govern your and everyone else's lives. Like the Greek trgedies, the fates that seek out the saga's inhabitants are announced beforehand. Njal knows that he, his wife and sons will die as a result of a specific action. The Icelanders invariably continue to remember past insults, kill neighbors, or be killed despite clear premonition. The saga, also like other good drama, builds in small but clear steps. Gunnar Hamundarson, the predecessor in death of Njal and a strong warrior, is besieged in his house and facing death. He has driven off most of his attackers, though,with bow and arrow until an enemy slices through his bow string. He turns to his wife and asks her to cut her hair to make him a new bow string. "Does anything depend on it, asked Hallgerd [his wife]. my life depends on it," replied Gunnar....In that case, said Hallgerd, I shall now remind you of the slap you once gave me..."

Also included is a sometime fascinating, sometimes overlong, description of Icelandic legal processes, which clearly greatly influenced or were similar to English (by way of the Normans) and so to us...

Great book.

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North
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Violent vendetta's in Viking times...

Njal's Saga
Njala , Carl F. Bayerschmidt , and Lee M. Hollander
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Though connoisseurs may insist that several other sagas excell the Njal's as works of art, Njala (as the Icelanders fondly call it) has by all odds been the most famous Icelandic saga and the best loved in ancient as well as in modern times.

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this was a surprize!.......2001-12-31

ok, i din't expect a lot so i got more than i expected but i was pleasantly surprized at the drama of njal's saga.
sometimes the writing is a bit tiresome (it just goes back and forth, back and forth) but there is a great story here that should be read.

North.......2000-10-03

I live in Ireland, and am mindful that our greatest poet of this generation Seamus Heaney, who has published a collection 'North' influenced by sagas like this one, said 'Read the Norse sagas to understand Northern Ireland'. Here you find the same internecine blood-feuding that has bedevilled part of this island, whether it is a remnant of the Viking Age I do not know. Yet these Norsemen are surprising also devoted to negotiation and peace-making, paying each other fines in lieu of vengance. However, someone always seems to conspire to continue the tradition of blood-vengance. Njal's Saga is comparable to 'King Lear' in the destruction of Njal, fundamentally a man of peace, yet cursed with sons who are the 'fastest guns' in their part of the world. First comes the death of Gunnar, the friend of Njal, and Iceland's greatest warrior, which serves as a long prologue, then into the feud of Njal and Flosi, caused by the jealousy and murder of Njal's foster-son by his foster-brothers. Flosi is the father-in-law of this man, and must seek vengance. Tragically, he is also a man of peace, but ultimately takes the decision to burn Njal and his sons to death in their house, a disgraceful act considered as 'nithing' by the Vikings. It shows how even men of peace can commit the most dreadful acts. But Njal's son-in-law Kari escapes to pursue vengance across the North Atlantic to Ireland. However, the sagas became Christianised and ends in forgiveness with Kari reconciled to Flosi and settled down as his son-in-law. This story never fails to stirs the emotions, like the moment when Bergthora and Njal are offered the chance to live by Flosi (Flosi's quarrel is with Njal's sons) - Njal cannot leave because he is too old to avenge his sons, and Bergthora (who is actually a bitter shrewish woman) says "I was married to Njal as a young girl and swore we would suffer the same fate together". They go to their bed to suffocate in the fire. The real villains in the sagas are not the killers, but the mainipulators like Mord in this saga who incites Njal's sons to kill their foster-brother while playing both sides, or Samkel and Otkel the brothers who refuse reconciliation with Gunnar. They are killed by Gunnar, but their deaths leads on to Gunnar's. Hence, Njal's eldest son, the great warrior Skarphedin is also a sympathetic character - if he had some of his father's wisdom, all might have been well. A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, where great men are trapped by their own weaknesses, told in wonderfully simple language.

A Northern Illiad.......2000-09-05

Although most of us have heard of the Greek epics and, in particular, the Illiad and Odyssey (the two most renowned epics in the western world), we have far less familiarity with the literary tradition of the old Norse folk who inhabited the lands about the Baltic and North Atlantic in early medieval times. Of course, we've heard about the vikings, coastal pirates and fighters who sprang from these folk, and about their wide-sailing adventures. Yet we are not nearly so familiar with the Norse literary tradition which is, in some ways, as compelling and profound as the literature of the ancient Greeks we so revere today. Certainly the Norse saga tradition is as powerful, reflecting stories handed down orally for generations which were finally committed to written form in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Among these works, Njal's Saga may well be the best of the lot. Like all sagas it is a prose epic (as opposed to the poetic form of the Illiad and its kind), but still possessing a uniquely poetic rhythm and perspective which only the Norse folk had to offer. It is a somewhat bleak tale of several generations of Icelandic families whose men and women lived and feuded in the ninth through eleventh centuries on the remote island of Iceland, itself only settled by fleeing Norse farmers and land holders from about 860 AD onward. Here, in Njal's Saga, is a tale of hard men in a harsh land who push and pull at one another until the only recourse, in their grim pioneering culture, seems to be the blood-feud. And once unleashed, the blood-flow is literally unstoppable as noble and not so noble heroes cut one another down until, at last, one of the most respected of all the Icelanders is himself burned alive, with most of his kinsmen, in one of the retaliatory raids which arise from the ongoing feuds. This despite the realization on the part of the burners that what they are about to do will have grim and far reaching implications. Yet they cannot pull back, for honor's sake, and must suffer the consequences which they have wittingly unleashed as a vast well-spring of revenge and justice arises to overwhelm the burners. In the end it is the wronged viking Kari who single-mindedly pursues and hunts his foes to the far corners of the earth, affording them no peace as he seeks re-payment for loss of kin until even he is spent.

This, like most sagas, is a tale of many strands and several generations and so it partakes of the literary conventions of its type -- conventions which make it a little harder on the modern reader than some would like. There are extensive character genealogies (of little interest to most of us today) and very limited descriptive text (something else some of us may miss). There is also a decided lack of the subjective point of view or of interior monologue, i.e., we never get inside these characters' heads to see things as they do. Indeed, as in Hemingway at his sharpest, we must 'see' the characters for what they are, based on what they do and say alone. The entire conceit of the sagas is that they are oral tales, reflecting only what people saw and remembered of the events recounted, and so they are written thus.

But at their best, they are a keen, if slightly aged and clouded, lense through which we may observe the doings of real people who are driven, much as we are today, by the same need for fame and fortune which infects the human soul in every generation. Insofar as these tales, and Njal's Saga in particular, are windows into these matters they are universal in their unraveling of human motivations. And they are great adventure besides. Njal's Saga, especially, has it all including feuds and viking adventure and, in the end, a redeeming sense of human frailty and reconciliation and justice in the eyes of heaven.

If you like the sagas as much as I do, you may want to also try some of the modern novels which are based, in varying degrees, on this literary tradition. A few good ones include: THE GOLDEN WARRIOR by Hope Muntz (the best of the lot, I think); STYRBIORN THE STRONG by E. R. Eddison; ERIC BRIGHTEYES by H. Rider Haggard; THE GREENLANDERS by Jane Smiley; TWO RAVENS by Cecelia Holland and here's one I did: THE KING OF VINLAND'S SAGA (but you have to judge the merits of this one as it's not my place to offer an opinion).The King of Vinland's Saga

A wonderful tragedy.......2000-06-13

Njal's saga is my favorite Icelandic saga so far. After reading Egil's saga and the Laxdaela Saga, in addition to Njal, you will be impressed by the full range of nobility, tragic consequences, and just pure plain drama that living in Viking times provided.

I agree with the other reviewers that the violence can be over the top and the laconic humor during the worst episodes cause one to blink, but that is the charm of these sagas.

Egil's saga has more poetry and is quite true to the barbaric nature of the Viking age where life seemed very cheap. You can't beat a complex sociopath like Egil (killed for the first time at age 6). But Njal offers more complex characters and a range of tragedy through time that culminates in the death of Njal. No one is completely good nor evil which makes for a more realistic setting.

Recommended for not just literature buffs but for the action enthusiast as well. The writing is blunt and so is the action. For Tolkien fans one should read the sagas to see one the inspirational sources for the Lord of the Rings.

Violent vendetta's in Viking times..........2000-05-17

This is a tale of familial antagonisms, fights and vendetta's which escalate over a fifty-year period and culminate in an act of brutal mass-murder which is soon avenged...

Though the style takes a while to get used to, this is an interesting and often funny saga. The characters are vividly portrayed and their entertaining travails, plots and adventures keep one absorbed. The violence is described in a strange way but this is quite comical, as many of the Vikings make statements and asides just before they die - 'That was a hand of wickedness anyway', says one warrior after his hand is hewn off by an axe. It is over-the-top and exaggerated violence, with decapitations and disembowling. The story itself can be a bit disjointed and it does trail off towards the end, but this is a fun little book nevertheless.

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Viking saga of sagas

Njal's Saga: or, The Story of Burnt Njal

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A spiteful, selfish wife instigates a grim blood feud between the families of two well-to-do Icelandic landowners. As it spirals out of control, the long and costly battle claims lives and property. Widely regarded as the capstone of Icelandic literary achievement, this gripping 13th-century saga documents Viking civic and legal institutions.

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Residents of early England (before 1600) are like these people........2007-01-19

I bought two copies, because a woman "borrowed," the first copy at United Airlines in Sacramento CA it was returned with her card 3 mo. later. After a month we had given up hope of recovering the book and purchased a second copy. I had read the forward and the last article by the translator, it was very readable and accurate. Most of the Norfolk residents were or are descendants of the Iceni and not of Romans or other Europeans. This book should be used in all English or history programs. It is far more accurate than most European histories. This part of UK was controlled by the Vikings for more than 400 years, a period a lot longer than the Roman.

Viking saga of sagas.......2006-08-05

Great view into the life and struggles of the Icelandic Vikings

Njal's Saga Translated From The Old Icelandic

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Njal's Saga Translated From The Old Icelandic
Carl & Hollander, Lee (Translation, Introduction & Notes) Bayerschmidt
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Fire and iron;: Critical approaches to Njals saga

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Fire and iron;: Critical approaches to Njals saga
Richard F Allen
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La Saga de Njal
Anonymous
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Lonnroth: Njals Saga
Lars Lonnroth
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NJAL'S SAGA
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
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NJAL'S SAGA

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-Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

"LoPucki provides a scathing attack on reorganization practice. Courting Failure recounts how lawyers, managers and judges have transformed Chapter 11. It uses empirical data to explore how the interests of the various participants have combined to create a system markedly different from the one envisioned by Congress. LoPucki not only questions the wisdom of these changes but also the free market ideology that supports much of the general regulation of the corporate sector."
-Robert Rasmussen, University of Chicago Law School

A sobering chronicle of our broken bankruptcy-court system, Courting Failure exposes yet another American institution corrupted by greed, avarice, and the thirst for power.

Lynn LoPucki's eye-opening account of the widespread and systematic decay of America's bankruptcy courts is a blockbuster story that has yet to be reported in the media. LoPucki reveals the profound corruption in the U.S. bankruptcy system and how this breakdown has directly led to the major corporate failures of the last decade, including Enron, MCI, WorldCom, and Global Crossing.

LoPucki, one of the nation's leading experts on bankruptcy law, offers a clear and compelling picture of the destructive power of "forum shopping," in which corporations choose courts that offer the most favorable outcome for bankruptcy litigation. The courts, lured by big money and prestige, streamline their requirements and lower their standards to compete for these lucrative cases. The result has been a series of increasingly shoddy reorganizations of major American corporations, proposed by greedy corporate executives and authorized by case-hungry judges.

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Excellent and well written book.......2007-01-09

Great book, explains how companies can abuse the bankruptcy court system. Very well written, and interesting for a general audience.

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Ohio Rules of Court- Federal- 2002

Manufacturer: West Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0314253513

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Includes amendments received through July 1, 2001

AMENDMENTS TO THE BANKRUPTCY RULES.: An article from: The National Public Accountant

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AMENDMENTS TO THE BANKRUPTCY RULES.: An article from: The National Public Accountant
Wesley H. Avery
Manufacturer: National Society of Public Accountants
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This digital document is an article from The National Public Accountant, published by National Society of Public Accountants on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1409 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: AMENDMENTS TO THE BANKRUPTCY RULES.
Author: Wesley H. Avery
Publication: The National Public Accountant (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: National Society of Public Accountants
Volume: 45 Issue: 10 Page: 16

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Appellate relief from interlocutory bankruptcy court abstention and remand orders: a reason for change?: An article from: Florida Bar Journal

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Appellate relief from interlocutory bankruptcy court abstention and remand orders: a reason for change?: An article from: Florida Bar Journal
Hala A. Sandridge
Manufacturer: Florida Bar
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This digital document is an article from Florida Bar Journal, published by Florida Bar on April 1, 1998. The length of the article is 3182 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Appellate relief from interlocutory bankruptcy court abstention and remand orders: a reason for change?
Author: Hala A. Sandridge
Publication: Florida Bar Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1998
Publisher: Florida Bar
Volume: 72 Issue: n4 Page: 88(4)

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Bankruptcy Courts & Procedures
Pamela Everett Nollkamper
Manufacturer: James Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: B000TBLIVA

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Written by a professional paralegal with more than 18 years of experience, Bankruptcy Courts & Procedures provides the tools necessary to guide you through your case whether youre new to the field or an experienced bankruptcy professional. Bankruptcy Courts & Procedures provides information necessary to file in every bankruptcy court nationwide, with filing requirements for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In addition to filing guidelines, the book is a comprehensive source for bankruptcy proceedings. The author offers a thorough overview of bankruptcy, including: All Types of Bankruptcy Cases Adversary Proceedings Conversion and Dismissal Role of the Trustee Debtor's Estate and Appeals The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention & Consumer Protection Act of 2005

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Bankruptcy Courts and Procedures

Bankruptcy Courts and Procedures
Pamela I. Everett
Manufacturer: James Pubns
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Binding: Hardcover

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Bankruptcy Courts and Procedures.......2007-07-08

Bankruptcy Courts & Procedures provides information necessary to file in every bankruptcy court nationwide, with filing requirements for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

In addition to filing guidelines, the book is a comprehensive source for bankruptcy proceedings. The author offers a thorough overview of bankruptcy, including:

All Types of Bankruptcy Cases
Adversary Proceedings
Conversion and Dismissal
Role of the Trustee
Debtor's Estate and Appeals
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention & Consumer Protection Act of 2005
This completely revised third edition of Bankruptcy Courts & Procedures by Pamela Everett Nollkamper introduces the new bankruptcy law known as Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. The entire book has been revamped to include changes brought forth by the new law. Key elements include:

New chapters

Needs-Based Bankruptcy (Chapter 4)
Cross-Border Insolvency (Chapter 10)
New and updated Forms

40 New Forms That Reflect the New Law Including:

Certification and Disclosure of Bankruptcy Preparer (Chapter 1)
Statements of Monthly Income Forms for Chapters 7, 11, and 13 Bankruptcy (Chapter 4)
Schedules A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J for Chapter 7 Straight Bankruptcy (Chapter 5)
List of Creditors (Chapter 6)
Disclosure Statement and Order Approving Disclosure Statement (Chapter 7)
Order Confirming Chapter 12 Plan (Chapter 8)
Discharge of Debtor Before or After Completion of Chapter 13 Plan (Chapter 9)
Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition and Summons (Chapter 11)
Reaffirmation Agreement and Motion for Approval (Chapter 12)
Summons and Subpoenas for Involuntary Proceedings (Chapter 14)
Notice of Appeal (Chapter 15)
Revised Bankruptcy Court Directory (Chapter 16)

Current contact information for:

Judges
Clerks
Bankruptcy Administrators
Bankruptcy Trustees
New filing requirements and procedures concerning:

Documents
Matrices
Notice
Motions
Electronic access to court records
Fax
Number of copies required
You'll find specific examples and requirements for filing cases in every U.S. bankruptcy court. This forms-oriented guide includes:

National filing directory with names, addresses, phone numbers and filing requirements for every jurisdiction in the country.
More than 140 sample forms, checklists, petitions, schedules and timetables to ensure all relevant information is completed correctly and included in filing.
Listings of courts utilizing computerized telephone information, PACER and VCIS.
Summaries of procedures to effectively complete files and documents.

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Bankruptcy for Paralegals
Janette J. Anderson
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