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Coercion, vengeance, feud and accommodation: homicide in medieval Iceland.

Quantitative methods were employed to situate medieval Icelandic homicide in comparative context. Estimates of homicide rates were derived from samtíðarsögur, and found comparable with European rural medieval homicide estimates: late twelfth-century Iceland was probably not as violent as a qualitati...

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Published in:Early Medieval Europe Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 139 - 176
Main Author: FIRTH, HUGH
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May2012
Subjects:
Homicide
Duress (Law)
Revenge
Quantitative research
Farmers
Middle Ages
Iceland
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost