Re: Heortling hitches

From: Douglas Seay <douglas.seay_at_marconi.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:58:29 -0400


> 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.

End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #550


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