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MAN-PRICE Book 1
6 parts · 25 h 57 min
Iceland, 997. Six years ago the dead won an argument about jurisdiction, and a draugr may now hold land, bring suits, and be owed compensation like anybody else.
MAN-PRICE Book 2
6 parts · 24 h 52 min
Iceland, the winter of 997. Since the dead won legal standing six years ago, a draugr may hold land, bring suits, and be owed compensation like anybody else.
MAN-PRICE Book 3
6 parts · 24 h 32 min
Iceland, 999. Mýra pours ale at a trading post on the west coast and is a freedwoman who cannot bring a suit in her own name.
MAN-PRICE Book 4
6 parts · 25 h 18 min
Iceland, the year 1000. At the Althing the country decides, in one day and one night, by arbitration, four hours short of a war it did not want, that all Iceland shall be Christian — with three concessions, and with no word of any kind about the dead.
MAN-PRICE Book 5
6 parts · 23 h 28 min
Iceland, 1005. The country has built a fifth court to make suits end, and with it passed an ordinance against the transfer of the right to prosecute to more powerful men, and against the procuring of such transfers by persons who are not parties. It is aimed at chieftains who buy other men's quarrels.
MAN-PRICE Book 6
6 parts · 22 h 2 min
Iceland, 1015. Fourteen years ago a man was killed digging into a mound at night, and everybody has always known who killed him, and no court could try him: a court sits between sunrise and sunset, and the defendant cannot come out of his howe in daylight.