[Discuss] Serious Medieval Atmosphere - Duels

[Julian Bailey]

On 4/10/08, Loren Schmidt <loren.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Alex <the1exile at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> >  It's certainly interesting, but the page doesn't cite any dates, and
> >  seems to suggest that duels dawned in the modern era, out of the
> >  medieval tournaments, not in the BM time period.
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> "Feuds in the medieval period occurred when people attempted to settle
> disputes and exact revenge for insults through "private vengeance,"
> rather than by going to the authorities and entrudting them to settle
> the matter."
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> As I'd said feuds are what we call duels in BM.  There were individual
> ones, and others that dragged a whole family into the affair largely
> escalating to the point where a whole family might get wiped out.
>
>
> /Loren
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>
> PS - The norse one I sent is a bit better about dates.
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Problem with the norse one though is that Caerwyn isn't very Norse, neither
is the duek AFAIK.
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