Roderick wrote:
Yes, they do, but they just don't call it that :-).
Report on the Orlanthi in King of Sartar has one of Andrin's laws as:
"A King can stop into any household of his subject, and stay for a Day-feed. ”
Over time the day-feed obligation tends to turn into tax to support the king at a royal site instead.
"They were seven in all, and therewithal both sides rushed into the fight. Thorarin slew a house-carle of Thorbiorn's, and Alfgeir another, and there fell also a housecarle of Thorarin's; but no weapons would bite on Odd Katlason. Now the goodwife Aud calls out on her women to part them, and they cast clothes over the weapons." The Story Of The Ere-Dwellers Chapter 18
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