William Ian Miller is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and Honorary Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews. He has written extensively on the bloodfeud, mostly as manifested in saga Iceland: Bloodtaking and Peacemaking (1990), Eye for an Eye (2006), Audun and the Polar Bear (2008); 'Why is your Axe Bloody?': A Reading of Njáls saga (2014). He has also written books about various emotions, mostly unpleasant ones: Humiliation (1993), The Anatomy of Disgust (1997), The Mystery of Courage (2000), Faking It (2003), and Losing It (2011) about the loss of mental acuity that comes with age

It is difficult to fault [Miller's] dedication to reading [the saga] with such a fine-toothed comb that he manages, against the odds, to say something new about a saga about which so much has been said before.

• Note to Readers Abbreviations Genealogies Key Farms 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) Part III. Horse, Vow, and Killing 5: Freysgoði, Frey, and Freyfaxi 6: The Ójafnaðarmaðr (the 'Unevenman') 7: Sam, Einar, and 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.) Part 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) Part V. Six Years Later 18: Eyvind Returns; a Griðkona 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 Freysgoði, translation of MS ÁM 156, fol. B. Glossary of Norse Terms Works Cited A.1 Hrafnkels saga, Editions and Translations Consulted A.2 Sources and Translations B. Secondary Works Maps Index

William Ian Miller is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and Honorary Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews. He has written extensively on the bloodfeud, mostly as manifested in saga Iceland: Bloodtaking and Peacemaking (1990), Eye for an Eye (2006), Audun and the Polar Bear (2008); 'Why is your Axe Bloody?': A Reading of Njáls saga (2014). He has also written books about various emotions, mostly unpleasant ones: Humiliation (1993), The Anatomy of Disgust (1997), The Mystery of Courage (2000), Faking It (2003), and Losing It (2011) about the loss of mental acuity that comes with age

It is difficult to fault [Miller's] dedication to reading [the saga] with such a fine-toothed comb that he manages, against the odds, to say something new about a saga about which so much has been said before.

• Note to Readers Abbreviations Genealogies Key Farms 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) Part III. Horse, Vow, and Killing 5: Freysgoði, Frey, and Freyfaxi 6: The Ójafnaðarmaðr (the 'Unevenman') 7: Sam, Einar, and 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.) Part 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) Part V. Six Years Later 18: Eyvind Returns; a Griðkona 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 Freysgoði, translation of MS ÁM 156, fol. B. Glossary of Norse Terms Works Cited A.1 Hrafnkels saga, Editions and Translations Consulted A.2 Sources and Translations B. Secondary Works Maps Index