Hi, all! A wonderful day to those that participate and a wish for happiness for those that don't.

For those of you that like SS/HP, the lovely mods at snape_potter are currently hosting the Valentine Comment Fest HERE, which has an assortment of offerings to fit just about every mood. Whilst there, I have to admit that I might have added a ficlet or two to ( Read more... )

So, today we were looking at the concept of weregeld and I ran across this passage and showed it to my son.

"In the 8th century the Lex Alamannorum sets the weregeld for a duke or archbishop at three times the basic value (600 shillings), while the killing of a low ranking cleric was fined with 300, raised to 400 if the cleric was attacked while ( Read more... )