Re: Re: Heortling Marriage, Courtship, Bridewealth

From: KYER, JEFFREY <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:13:14 -0500

John Hughes wrote:
>
> David Wrote:
>
> > Except that wergild is supposed to be set high enough to discourage
> > killings (and require your kin to help pay, to further help
> > discourage killings). You want to *encourage* marriage, so
> > bride-price/dowry should be a bit lower.
>
> To be honest I'm still not comfortable in my own thinking with the relative
> costs and values. When I wrote up some law codes for Thunder Rebels, I tried
> to harmonise the existing sources. Stephen and Greg were still balancing the
> draft's various costs and fines last time I checked etc.

These ended up getting harmonized with things like 'um, how many cows would a bloodline _have_ to survive or prosper? And how many cows/bloodlines would a clan have? There is a writeup of an ABSOLUTELY average clan in TR. Oh, yeah, its about 1+ cow/steer per adult. 1 bull per stead.  

Jeff

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