Snake Pit
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Snake pits were a historical European means of imposing capital punishment. Convicts were cast into a deep pit containing venomous snakes, such as vipers. They died from snake venom poisoning as the irritated snakes attacked them. An example of execution by this method is that of the Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok in 865, after his army was defeated in battle by King Aelle II of Northumbria. An older legend recorded in in Atlakviða and Oddrúnargrátr tells that Attila…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Snake pits were a historical European means of imposing capital punishment. Convicts were cast into a deep pit containing venomous snakes, such as vipers. They died from snake venom poisoning as the irritated snakes attacked them. An example of execution by this method is that of the Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok in 865, after his army was defeated in battle by King Aelle II of Northumbria. An older legend recorded in in Atlakviða and Oddrúnargrátr tells that Attila the Hun murdered Gunnarr, the King of Burgundy, in a snake pit. A similar penalty appeared in ancient China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period 907-960.