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> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:00:16 -0500
> From: Andrew Larsen
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> Not really. In early medieval society (specifically among Germanic
> people) marriaged functioned just this way. The wife was expected to be a
> 'peace weaver', bringing together her old family and her new family.
> Several great works of literature from this period turn on the question of
> what happens to a woman when her birth family and her marriage family get
> into a feud--which ties take precidence for her?
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> As sort of an aside, I've used the whole issue of marriage to
> considerable effect in my Sartar campaign. The clan's healer was engaged to
> marry a thane from another clan. Had the marriage gone through, one clan
> would have lost one of its two healers.
Just a thought here -
If women always marry outside the clan, wouldn't there then be a disincentive for the clan to put a bunch of
resources into educating them or training them?
After all, what's the point in investing loads of magical resources into your Ernaldans or Vingans or female
Issarians or C-A's, if they just might go off with one of your enemy clan's weaponthanes because he looked cute in
woad during the last raid?
So wouldn't that mean that female Heortlings would be less educated/less well trained/less magically potent than the
males?
So, wouldn't this suggest that there are at least *some* intra-clan marriages?
Tom