Why is there a hole like a bugs bunny cartoon?

It's great that they tried it out. This is a sport that I would watch :D

Technically trial by combat is still an option in the US court system. This is because it was legal in Britain when the US declared independence, and the British laws/precedents were mostly kept as-is. Britain outlawed it a few decades later but that didn't change the now seperated laws in the US.

Nobody's ever specifically outlawed trial by combat in the US because only a few people have ever tried to use it, and those people were told to shut up and just pay their traffic tickets.

this just makes me wonder how sword centric society was back then. it reminds me of how every problem looks like a nail if you have a hammer. solving civil law problems with swords seems so strange. I wonder how much of it was to just discourage people from using the process.

That's pretty much how traditions work?

You invite the family over for Christmas because it's your turn, you go for a walk to the woods because you know it's nice and want to show the family.

Next year, the people whose turn it is have to drop out for work, mum and dad are having building work done, so you offer to do it at yours again. It snows this year so you guys do the walk again because it'll be special to see the nice walk in the snow.

By year 3, if you do it again then "it wouldn't be Christmas if we didn't do the special Christmas walk at Jane and John's" until you moved

If you have the time I'd love that!

I was very firmly under the impression that it was traditional that the monarch spent the night before at the Tower.

Pretty much, yeah. But only if those murderers have just as many friends as their accusers.

So...

Really let's murderers off the hook if they're good at murdering.

Regardless of the Pound symbol is the price, I still thought this article was going to be about Elvis Presley.

I can translate it for you, If you want to.

This is a legal system that assumes God exists and is interested in humanity. Werner says that Albrecht killed somebody. Albrecht says that's a lie. Both have three respected members of the community backing them up. Evidence - based rulings and In Dubio Pro Reo aren't really things yet.

So what's the logical consequence? Appeal to the ultimate authority. Give Albrecht and Werner weapons, put them in the arena and let God sort them out. He'll make sure the guy who's in the right wins. It might seem barbaric from a modern perspective but from a medieval mindset it's elegant.

LOL. This was centuries before apparently and the article even brings in a historian to dispel such assumptions specifically.

Says so much about reality: we can put words right in front of someone, bit they might ignore them in explaining them.

The article rejects that notion actually.

So, not funny.

Really let's murderers off the hook if they're good at murdering.

Maybe? The guys bits are underground and can't be struck from her position though.

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Now... Did we do the banana?

I have zero fighting experience, but I interpret that last pic as the two combatants swinging their weapons with their dominant arm and protecting their vulnerable areas with their other arm.

Thanks for the full run down. I don't understand too much of the German wording lol

Talking about the original, which this article referenced. Though, looking in retrospect, it does seem like I'm calling this article wrong.

Pointed stick? Oh, we want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh?

In modern day this sounds more like a kink than anything else.

Surprise thy opponent with a strike to the gooch.

> it’s not from trial by combat, there were no records of that being used after 1200.

It's not from trial by combat to settle a dispute between husband and wife.

Trial by combat in general was still around, but it was only invoked in cases of (for example) murder, treason, blasphemy and a few other high-profile accusations.