MAN-PRICE Book 5
by Halla Sigurdottir · Vast Fiction
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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. The first person it lands on is a freedwoman of thirty-one at a trading post on the west coast, who has never been paid for anything and who cannot bring a suit in her own name and never could. Seventeen particulars are laid against her, every one of them true, and she does not deny one. And because she is a defendant she may, for the first time in her life, stand up in a court and speak.