Las mujeres tienen en la Ndrangheta un papel importante. [...] Las mujeres también son las que mantienen vivas las faidas, las venganzas, además de organizar matrimonios de conveniencia entre las familias amigas. "No os he criado para pagar las facturas de la luz y el agua", se escucha en una interceptación a Saveria Strangio, viuda de un capo, durante las escuchas que la policía realizó en la casa milanesa de uno de sus hijos.
(María Signo: El poder de la mafia calabresa. En La Voz de Galicia del Domingo 26 de Agosto)
"Cold are the councils of women" reads a famous line from Njáls Saga, and in times of feud women are repeatedly portrayed in the sagas as demanding blood vengeance. Demanding and getting are not the same, and the self-willed women of Njáls Saga at times found it difficult to goad their men into action.
(Jesse Byock: Viking Age Iceland)
"Bolli, your brother's killer, lives there. You have certanly turned out very different from your noble kinsmen if you don't want to avenge a brother like Kjartan. [...] It's a sad thing to have shirkers for sons. [...] Olaf's worst misfortune, that he was cheated when it came to the kind of sons he got."
(Laxdaela saga, quoted in Jesse Byock's Viking Age Iceland)
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