>I?ve been having some serious email problems lately and have been
>unable to respond to anything on this list. I managed to pluck this
>out, and will respond.
And I was housesitting at a house with very intermittant email access (which is why I copuld answer some questions, but was silent a lot of the time).
> "Saxons!" says
> "...Each must own at least five hides (of land); enough land to
> support a full-time warrior. A tegn should have armor, helmet, sword,
> shield and several spears. He may know how to ride a horse, but he
> does his fighting on foot..."
>Being unable to access the plethora of response to Adept?s email, I am
>not sure if RR has responded to this. And I am not sure if this was so
>written to fit into the Pendragon format.
>
>I myself do not recall anything I?ve read hat requires a thegn to hold
>five hydes of land.
>Although there may, in fact, be multiple examples in the Doomsday Book
>to support this.
I found that in some book or another - it's in the Saxons bibliography, I just can't point my finger at it without re-reading 10 year old notes... There were other ways one could be made a thegn - leading 5 sailing voyages/merchant expeditions to the continent for example. But like anything, a king could always appoint someone as a thegn without the prerequisites - it might not be the *best* idea...
Also, of course, you can give someone five hydes to make him a thegn.
But Saxons was written for Pendragon, not Glorantha. Like any Gloranthan
Culture, you should probably have at least 3 Real World societies to point
at. Heortlings are like:
Saxons/Vikings
Iriquois
Homeric Greeks
The Mafia
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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