Re: How many clans in a tribe?

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:38:07 +0100 (BST)

> One clan == ~1500 people
> One tribe == ~12,000 people
> Heortling Sartar == ~288,000 people
>
> That fields a fyrd of about 57,000 armed militia,
> with about
> 2,400 people in each tribe's fyrd.
>
> Is that a resonable number? It seems a little shy to
> me, but I
> don't have a good feel for strategic level military
> sizes.

Nor me. There was an article in Questlines by David Hall that gave population figures for the tribes: I then used that ages ago as part of a collection of what was known then about each tribe. Results are here:
http://www.williams.nildram.co.uk/gloranth/tribes.htm but I'm afraid I don't have time to do the sums at present.
(Don't bookmark it: save it if you want it. That link is about to die.)



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