Getting in Touch with Relative Location

The early Irish hostage surety and inter-territorial alliances

“…It is well known that within a single túath , unatoned killings provoked the kindred of the victim to pursue a legally recognized blood‐feud ‘to exact vengeance ( dígal ) on behalf of the dead man’ . Naturally, incessant vendettas raging between two kingdoms were detrimental to both of them and the cairde was meant to avoid inter‐territorial feuding by allowing compensation to be exacted from across the border.…”