Information About ™Ergi |
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To accuse another man of being ''argr'' was considered a '' Níð '' (defamation), and thus a legal reason to challenge the accuser in mortal combat. Or if mortal combat was not a wanted option, the accuser could be outlawed (full outlawry) or he had to pay the offended party full compensation. The Grágás law code states: :"There are three words—should exchanges between people ever reach such dire limits—which all have full outlawry as the penalty; if a man calls another ''ragr'', ''stroðinn'' or ''sorðinn''. As they are to be prosecuted like other ''fullréttisorð'' and, what is more, a man has the right to kill in retaliation for these three words. He has the right to kill in retaliation on their account over the same period as he has the right to kill on account of women, in both cases up the next General Assembly. The man who utters these words falls with forfeit immunity at the hands of anyone who accompanies the man about whom they were uttered to the place of their encounter” (Meulengracht Sørenson 17). The practice of Seiðr was considered ''ergi'' in the Viking Age , and in Iceland ic accounts and medieval Scandinavia n laws, the term ''argr'' sometimes implied receptive Homosexual intercourse (see Homosexuality And Ásatrú ). Curiously, in modern Scandinavian ''argr'' has evolved to mean "angry" ( Swedish , Norwegian ''arg'', Danish ''arrig''). In modern Icelandic the word has evolved to "ergilegur", meaning " seem/appear irritable". SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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