Monday, May 16, 2011

Cultural differences

[This post got out of order, due to issues related to the Blogger outage last week.]

It occurred to Narfi that it was not a good idea to keep the killing secret and so be guilty of murdering the man.... (Saga of Ref the Sly)

at

4 comments:

  1. LeoMay 12, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    I'm somewhat confused: how does telling people about your murder exculpate you? Or am I misreading the passage?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Dan LowerMay 13, 2011 at 5:48 PM

    I am so confused right now...

    ReplyDelete
  3. Alexander R PrussMay 13, 2011 at 5:59 PM

    From my reading of sagas, according to the Norse the difference between a permissible killing and a murder consisted in two things: a permissible killing wasn't secret and the killer paid appropriate material compensation. That is a very different view from ours.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Dan LowerMay 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    ...Yes.

    ReplyDelete