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    What is the Bloody Eagle?

    Question #40059. Asked by mancandy. (Oct 18 03 12:33 PM)


    mibmob

    		An unpleasant site I have found says:
    "The Bloody Eagle is where you cut the victim's ribs away from their spine and pry it apart so that they are lying with their ribs splayed to revile all. I suppose it become pretty obvious by now why it's called the Bloody Eagle. So anyway the person is suppose to slowly bleed to death after a great deal of pain".
    Surely this is not what you wanted?



    Oct 18 03, 12:58 PM
    shady shaker

    		It's the shot Larry Mize holed from off the green
    in the 1987 US Masters to deny Greg Norman the
    title!!

    Oct 18 03, 3:54 PM
    Stew54

    		Nordic sagas talk of a means of ritual killing like mibmob describes. I believe it was called "att rista blodvrn".

    A graphic description appears in the ßáttr af Ragnars sonum: 'They caused the bloody eagle to be carved on the back of Ælla, and they cut away all of the ribs from the spine, and then they ripped out his lungs.'

    Oct 18 03, 4:27 PM
    mancandy

    		I was just wondering if anyone could find the response. mibmob is correct-it is how King Cnut killed the king of northumbria before he married his wife emma and had ummmm alfred I believe.

    Oct 24 03, 6:46 PM
    mancandy

    		ALSO, they swing the lungs back over the shoulder so that they look like wings!!!! lest we forget that detail!!!

    Oct 26 03, 11:57 AM
    mibmob

    		THe appalling site I found this on also mentions a "mediaeval" punishment called the "gelatin".

    Oct 26 03, 1:21 PM

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