  We express explicitly the integral closures of some ring extensions; this is
done for all Bring-Jerrard extensions of any degree as well as for all general
extensions of degree < 6; so far such an explicit expression is known only for
degree < 4 extensions. As a geometric application we present explicitly the
structure sheaf of every Bring-Jerrard covering space in terms of coefficients
of the equation defining the covering; in particular, we show that a degree-3
morphism f : Y --> X is quasi-etale if and only if the first Chern class of the
sheaf f_*(O_Y) is trivial (details in Theorem 5.3). We also try to get a
geometric Galoisness criterion for an arbitrary degree-n finite morphism; this
is successfully done when n = 3 and less satifactorily done when n = 5.
