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{{quote|"If you can slay the thorny Boar of Borythorn, she is yours," grinned a traveler. "But there is no thorny Boar of Borythorn, which makes it hard."}}
** That one just begs for [[Loophole Abuse]] in the form of designating any random boar in Borythorn, the 'thorny Boar', even if you have to pay several locals to publicly proclaim it as such, and then shooting it. After all, its incredibly easy to fill a vacant position.
* In ''[[Gor|Marauders of Gor]]'' by John Norman, the Viking warleader Ivar Forkbeard is set an absurdly high wergild, one utterly out of proportion to his original offense, by Jarl Svein Blue Tooth. Specifically, one hundred stone of gold, the weight of a grown man in the sapphires of Schendi, and the daughter of Ivar (and Svein's) enemy Thorgard of Scagnar, the only man in the North who owns a larger army than Svein Blue Tooth. However, the Jarl overlooked that while finding that much gold in one place to loot in the North is nigh-impossible several cities in the South offer such prime targets, the city of Tyros had already offered his weight in precious gems to anyone who could rescue their ruler from the dungeons of their greatest enemy, and Thorgard of Scagnar had gone so long without being attacked that the men guarding his stronghold had grown ''very'' complacent. Sure enough, Ivar Forkbeard shows up several years later with everything his Jarl had asked for, leaving Svein Blue Tooth eating his own beard.
** And then he trolls the Jarl by pointing out that while he had everything necessary to pay him with, he'd decided to ignore being legally reinstated instead and just use the loot to make himself richer and more powerful than the Jarl ever was. The situation is eventually resolved when both men forgive each other and make an alliance against the attack of a much worse enemy.
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