Michael Schwartz wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> >A longhouse...
>
> The residence of the head of the bloodline, of course, who is likely a
> farmer.
and the majority of the bloodline will live here and/or report to here. In the evenings (cold dark season ones anyway) alot of the poeple at the stead would spent their time here all under one roof socialising I think.
>
> >Six nearby residences...
>
> The godi and his family, two farmers and their families, the fisher and
> his family, and two families of cottars who work as household servants
> and gardeners.
This seems alot unless the longhouse is the clan chief's and this is the
clan's main holding?
But a mill and a Loom house sound like good prospects along with barns,
byres, granaries, sheep pens, and pig sties.
> >Another six farther out...
>
> The huntsman and his family, two herders and their families, and three
> families of cottars who work as shepherds and pig-tenders.
>
> Are these acceptable?
>
Six more farther out sounds unlikely unless these are summer barns or byres
on the higher pastures. Small temporary dwellings perhaps that are used to
separate the hot-heads in the still hot summers or to keep the
herders/shepherds with their animals.
... Aeolia, where the storm-clouds have their home, a place teeming with furious winds from the south. Here Aeolus is king, and in a vast cavern he controls the brawling winds and the roaring storms, keeping them curbed and fettered in their prison. Resentfully they rage from door to door in the mountainside, protesting loudly, while Aeolus sits in his high citadel, sceptre in hand, taming their arrogance and controlling their fury.
Virgil. The Aeneid.
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