> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:16:43 GMT
> From: donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk (Donald R. Oddy)
> Subject: Re: Heortling hitches
>
> If a thrall will be freed after giving birth to the child of a freeman,
> that's a hell of an incentive for her to have sex with him - so much
> so that the clan will have to keep replenishing the stock every couple
> of generations.
That isn't how I understand Heortling thralldom to work. Everyone is
born free, including the children of thralls. All thralls are "first
generation" so the stock has to be replenished each generation.
- - doug
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