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Wie genau funktionieren Blutfehden in Albanien? Ist das Kanun noch gefolgt?
How exactly Blood Feuds work in Albania?
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Wouldn’t you like to know weather boi…
Gjakmarrje is still a thing? I thought that was only left to like 5 people in Kosovo.
It’s „followed“ by people who remember the Kanun when it’s in their interests. Nowadays people invoke it when they think the legal system has failed them.
It’s an interesting case of auto-management in the absence of a strong state, but its historical spread among Albanians is overstated.
Bo bo bo komentet, te prapambetur, kultur mesjetare…
E lezetshme kishte disa qe shkruanin, po zhduket, esht shum e rrall, ngjarje qe ndodhin ne zona te thella.Posht ktyre shkruanin po shqiptar por te kunderten.
It’s not relevant anymore. The old codes of Kanun allowed the killer to roam around freely for a few days while wearing a red band in his arm before becoming a target. In the medieval times the target was only the killer. Later the ancient law got changed and the target would become every close male relative of the killer, including teens coming off age. The target would be left untounched if he was to be isolated in his home or a safe tower known as „kulla e ngujimit“. But this was seen as unmanly and the killer was encouraged to meet his fate. Once the target was eleminated, it would be his male relatives turn taking the oath and take revenge. It went on for centuries.
It’s tragically funny because by the old legends, the code started because of a dispute of two respected noble lords who fought over a nice young girl they saw and wanted to marry her during Skanderbeg’s wedding. It ended with hundreds of victims. The only option to disolve it was through blood peace talks in front of a priest, where the avenging family would officially accept the end of the feud. Again this was seen as a coward move, which was the like losing all of the honor in the community.
Nowadays this method has vanished in silence. But blood revenge has become more widespread through those involved in the organized crime. There are no longer anh kind of codes, free days, or safe homes. It is just people killing each other wherever they are and to whoever they are related to.
Kanun is a very interesting historical medieval book but it has nothing to do with any of these so called „bloodfeuds“ . They are a product of when the killers are free for whatever reason, its just selfjustice it has nothing to do with books. So all these kanun and ancient blood stuff are basically just bs used to make the story more exotic to western audiences
It doesn’t.
There is a lot of exoticizing from Western media to make this look like a remaining part of old Albanian culture. Blood feuds are not a continuous tradition from when Kanun was codified, they are a dead tradition resurrected only by modern crazies who decide to LARP as some honor bound warriors for whatever perceived slight. You can tell it’s a dead tradition because of how selective they are about Kanun, they follow literally nothing else in any other part of their lives.
In this way, they are more comparable to Texans LARPing as bounty hunters today in the middle of Austin, except you wouldn’t make a documentary about the honor code of cowboys to justify them stalking poor people to kill in case they find them stealing a car. You’d call them crazy and want them arrested. They are a social anomaly, not part of a culture. They are actually extremely removed from the culture when these behaviors might have been more common.