Each chief has his own 4 Storms as a personal bodyguard and all these
are weaponthanes.
In addition he has a bunch of other weaponthanes, depending on how
many he can maintain.
Now each weaponthane has his own 4 Storms of warriors.
So as I understand it the chief is effectivly having to support 5 men
for each weaponthane. Big expense - or do they come from the warriors
supported by other thanes heads of households? Although that is
beginning to sound a bit feudal.
Question: Do the chiefs own 4 Storms have their own warrior 4 Storms
in turn? My personal opinion is that they don't.
Other thanes also have their own warriors that they may maintain - or
do they??
I have even had visions of when the fyrd is summoned it panning out
with smaller sub-units of:
1 weaponthane + 4 Storms + 16 Fyrrd = 21 men (mystical number????)
- or perhaps I go to far here!
Thanks Jon
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