David Willis McCullough...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.
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In Wisconsin, if you’re a farmer, you’re a king. In medieval Ireland, “a king” meant a farmer with a big plot of land, and they all hated each other. Indeed, they killed each other! It sounds like they also hated their neighbors, but that they were into the whole killing thing. Maybe?
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