There was no reason to be afraid of that! His uncle was basically banished to a god forsaken island where he would never be heard from again and had no title! At least in most Hamlet stories he has to kill the uncle to reclaim the title! In the Northman Scar/Fjolnir is just some asshole living in Iceland with a handful of slaves. Simba/Amleth sends his wife to go find his apparently royal and unknown family while he goes to kill the random dipshit that is his uncle. His uncle wasn’t a threat anymore he could’ve just left!!!
Probably could have just left, yeah. But also remember that this is using some ancient viking logic, and it's also basically an epic poem that inspired Hamlet. No way he was ever just gonna leave, it was always gonna end with dude having an epic battle on a volcano lol.
This. Blood Feuds were intergenerational affairs. Sometimes there would be a decade or two or more between major instances of bloodshed. If you left anyone from the other family alive they might come back with relatives to kill your grandkids.
Fair enough that was pretty brutal but
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He didn't return to his revenge quest for revenge at that point, he returned to end the blood feud and protect his kids
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There was no reason to be afraid of that! His uncle was basically banished to a god forsaken island where he would never be heard from again and had no title! At least in most Hamlet stories he has to kill the uncle to reclaim the title! In the Northman Scar/Fjolnir is just some asshole living in Iceland with a handful of slaves. Simba/Amleth sends his wife to go find his apparently royal and unknown family while he goes to kill the random dipshit that is his uncle. His uncle wasn’t a threat anymore he could’ve just left!!!
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Probably could have just left, yeah. But also remember that this is using some ancient viking logic, and it's also basically an epic poem that inspired Hamlet. No way he was ever just gonna leave, it was always gonna end with dude having an epic battle on a volcano lol.
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This. Blood Feuds were intergenerational affairs. Sometimes there would be a decade or two or more between major instances of bloodshed. If you left anyone from the other family alive they might come back with relatives to kill your grandkids.