Re: Humakti and Land

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From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:27:31 +0100 (BST)

David Dunham:
> Prestige. The Humakti would get some cottars or carls to work his
> lands, and would thus have clients who would support him.
>
> Of course, as you point out, the Humakti is probably a weaponthane in
> service of a chief or king, and thus this is a sneaky way of the
> chief of king raising his own prestige.

Since the chief is the person with the (nominal, at least) right to (re)allocate the land(-use rights), allocating it to one of his own huscarls and then having some yet-other bunch of people actually work it is almost a null-op.

Sounds to me like if your chief is doing this, this is either a rather un-sneaky means of 'persuading' the clan to not complain too much about the land allocations... Or of 'persuading' the cottars (etc) to work a bit faster. ("My name's Ron and..." "My name is Ron. And we are..." "The management.")

Cheers,
Alex.

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