Mirdita

It is the law also in Mirdita, and Kthela, and Luria.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

By recent legislation some tribes now restrict blood-guiltiness to the actual offender (as in Mirdita) or his house (as Shala).

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

But there was a man in Mirdita, he said, very clever at skull-cutting.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

But they admitted that for blood alone, a very considerable tax is paid in Mirdita.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

Mirdita had not yet decided to accept Constitution, till it knew more about it.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

Kthela in several particulars resembles Mirdita, but is not blood-related.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

Going south Mirdita leads; but as Ulk turned Moslem, God has not blessed him, and his line has increased but to three houses in seven generations.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

In battle Kthela, the border tribe, goes with Mirdita.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

Mirdita numbers some three thousand houses, said my host, all Christian, and consists of five bariaks, of which Oroshi, Spachi, and Kushneni are of the same blood as Shala-Shoshi, and not intermarriageable either among themselves or with Shala-Shosi.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

And she fled with the bloody yataghan into the night and into the mountains of Mirdita.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909