{"product_id":"audun-and-the-polar-bear-luck-law-and-largesse-in-a-medieval-tale-of-risky-business-9789004168114","title":"Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William I. Miller\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Medieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAudun'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 story'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891773784215,"sku":"9789004168114","price":17836.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004168114.webp?v=1781184774","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/audun-and-the-polar-bear-luck-law-and-largesse-in-a-medieval-tale-of-risky-business-9789004168114","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}