"For Vikings, Murder Was A Family Affair" Topic

"One of the safest things for a Viking to have was a big family. In a recently published paper in Evolution and Human Behavior, researchers have found that killers in Iceland's Viking society often had larger family networks than their victims.

Three Icelandic family sagas provided the data. These sagas function as family histories, recording important events like births, weddings and deaths, as well as events like feuds with other families. Additionally, they were almost always written within living memory of the events and often cross-referenced one another's events. This gave the researchers a high degree of certainty in the historical accuracy of the family saga deaths, and the reasons behind them.

The researchers were interested in the Icelandic Vikings because of how remote they were. During the first two centuries, after the initial colonization, the settlers had no unifying government to enforce laws. It was the responsibility of a family to enact justice on a wrongdoer, including a murderer…"
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Huh! Interesting!!

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

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