Quote:Amen. From the Author's Note to David Drake's Northworld: Justice:
the Vikings had a goddess of contracts because they were a highly honourable and law-abiding people. (Stop laughing - going a-viking wasn't against Viking law in most times, as long as you didn't raid your own people.) The Icelandic Eddas have almost as many stories about lawsuits as they have about battles.)
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Despite modern impressions to the contrary, there was a highly-developed legal system in Dark Age Scandinavia, from which these Edda tales spring. Courts, compromise, and the reduction of injuries to money payments were the tools of the Law.
Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.