Feuds between nations are quite well-known, but how long can a feud last on lower level? Is there for example records of two villages having quarrel since Roman times? Or two villas somewhere in Italy? Or two ancient families having a never-ending dispute? (I wonder if Bourbons and Habsburgs are already in speaking terms) Or something similar.
A sales rep stopped by a few weeks ago and asked why I never did business with his company. I told him that a previous rep had pissed me off, mentioning her name, which he didn’t recognize.
He stopped by a week later and told me about the trip down memory lane that I had started. He couldn’t find anyone who remembered her, until finally one old timer recalled her. He said she was a real bitch, and was fired 22 years ago.
She really pissed me off.
I don’t have an answer to the OP, but I have a suggestion: it might be worth researching the subject in Arabic.
Regarding feuds, the Arabic language has a word that exists in no other language that I know of: “sulcha” or “tzalcha”.
The word is the name of the “feud ceremony” --a formal ceremony used when a feud ends. Both familes meet, each side ties a knot on a white flag, and they sit down together for a meal.
The fact that such a word is needed, and that a standardized formal cermony exists, implies that feuds are pretty common in certain societies, although I don’t know how long-lasting they are.
Well that is delightful to hear. Sulcha - soon in your nearest European country!
I’ve disliked sports since those lousy disloyal bums abandoned Brooklyn and headed off to L.A.
There’s a feud between descendants of Ishmael and Isaac that seems to have gained some traction.
Two of my aunts had an argument in the early 1940s. They never spoke again. They lived in the same neighborhood, shopped at the same grocery store and even went to the same Church. Mary did not go to Theresa’s funeral when she died in 1996, nor did she comment afterwards.
My family sure knows how to hold a grudge…
My grandfather got in trouble with one of the major power families among the Amish; this was back in the 1930s. There are still places where I have to use my wife’s maiden name for hotel reservations and I have some Amish friends who would deny all knowledge of my existence if asked by members of that clan.