Not just similar to the Icelandic system: "26 This is the second striking similarity we have observed between Somali and ancient Irish law. The Celts, in the co

Not just similar to the Icelandic system: "26 This is the second striking similarity we have observed between Somali and ancient Irish law. The Celts, in the course of their history, occupied many different places, but it is hard to believe that they got as far as the horn of Africa, so the similarities are presumably examples of parallel legal evolution—or, just possibly, common descent from some legal system in the very distant past. For a third similarity, consider that a favorite sport of both cultures appears to have been cattle raiding—in the Somali case camels."