blood feud

Historical Examples of blood feud

• The blood-feud was now old, but Elsung yearned to avenge it on Page 418 Theodoric.

  Theodoric the Goth

  Thomas Hodgkin

• The bride-cup was not yet drunk, Eric; therefore I have no blood-feud for Ospakar.

  Eric Brighteyes

  H. Rider Haggard

• For he did not wish to land himself in a blood-feud with the kin of a lawyer.

  The Dew of Their Youth

  S. R. Crockett

• The blood-feud was familiar to her, and she knew no shame in it.

  Heart of the Blue Ridge

  Waldron Baily

• No "eric" or blood-fine of any kind is paid for her death, which carries no blood-feud.

  Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1

  Andrew Lang