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The Myth of the Feud in Anglo-Saxon England
The Myth of the Feud in Anglo-Saxon England John Niles The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 114, No. 2 (April 2015), pp.163-200. “Every student of the Anglo-Saxons accepts the existence of feud as afeature of society before the Norman Conquest,” writes Paul Hyams in his 2003 book Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England. Emphasiz-ing that “feud was quite central to Anglo-Saxon…
