On Fighting On the High Uplands
Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians
by Stanislaw Vincenz
pg 50
So far as free fights, duels, head splittings and bone breakings were concerned, we know that no one thought them particularly wicked. obduracy in a quarrel is evil, but not the quarrell itself. if the enemies were reconciled, as was the custom, then the rancour vanished. if in fight something happened by accident…well, it was an accident.
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