The fatal outcome of the lack of compensation Print

Compensation as mediation for peace The exigibility of compensation is recurrent in Nordic mythology. Thus the Gylfaginning relates how a farmer offered a night to Loki and Thor. In exchange, Thor had served his goats for dinner, the latters having to regenerate flesh and skin during the night, getting back thus life and vigor. Thjalfi, the farmer's son, hungry for marrow, broke a bone of one of the goats, leting him lame after his reconstitution. Terrified by Thor's fury, the farmer offered Thor his two children Thjalfi and Roskva in serfdom. There is indeed a stake in compensation : mitigate anger and avoid revenge. It was the same when the giant Thjazi was killed by the Æsirs after he abducted the goddess Idunn. The giant Skadi immediately seized the helm and arms of her father and began a march on Asgard with determination. Seeing his courage more than regretting their act, the Æsirs offered him an union; Skadi could conditionally choose the god she wanted to marry. Skadi also demanded that the Æsirs manage to amuse her and Odin finally offered him in homage to his father a constellation in the firmament created with Thjazi's own eyes. Exchange, such as exogamy or trade are thus types of compensation in the sense of compensation as retribution vector of peace. Any imbalance breeds revenge. This is a real issue. Conversely, the absence of compensation, or the imbalance, amplify anger, resentment, revenge and inevitably have a fatal outcome. The parable of the otter's tribute is not limited by the death of Otr. In order to fulfill, Loki robbed the dwarf Andvari of his gold and gold ring. Andvari in his dispossession curses the thief and all receller of his property. It was greed that was later punished. Inheriting this stolen tribute, Hreidmar was assassinated by his sons whose lineages were torn apart for this gold. The clearing mechanism became customary in earlier Scandinavian society and was already apparent in judgments. This tradition is certainly anchored in contemporary mental though pattern or at least in legal precedents. Indeed during the Tings, these assemblies favorable to the settlement of the litigations and condemnations of the crimes, the compensation, financial or material, often allowed to appease without resorting to more extreme sentences such as the capital punishment or the exile.

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