[Glorantha] Re: Lappland, women and breeding

From: Nils Weinander <nils>
Date: Tue Dec 13 14:00:25 2005

Hmm, the Gloranthan content may be a little low in this reply...

Mikko:
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>>Of course, in Orlanthi society the age at which one marries and the age at
>>which one produces children are not as closely linked as in Xstian society
>>(were this lot Xstian?) But even so.... 30. Hmm. That's a good long time to
>>be in the Healer bracket. Or Adventurous. "Career" stage, isn't it?

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> Christian, yes. When the swedes ditched their old religion they had a lot
> of fun crusading over the gulf and converting us finns (and the lapps).
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> By that stage I'm pretty sure even the most remote Lappish groups were
> pretty thoroughly converted.

In Sweden, the Same (laplanders) were christianized in the 17th century, when swedish pioneers first moved up the great rivers to the interior of Lapland, i.e. much later than the 12th-13th century crusades to Finland and Estonia.

>>Since the adult women weren't tied to the cycle of pregnant/feeding/nappies,
>>I take it they had less limits on their activities? How did that work out in
>>terms of their part in society?

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> Unfortunately I don't know. Life must have beenpretty hard to the reindeer
> herders (living in yurt-like tents, following the herds), so I bet
> everybody had a lot of work in their hands, just to survive. I don't know
> how much political power the women had (propably not all that much), but
> their labour will have been very important.

Back to some Gloranthan connection, traditional Same society has a gender structure similar to the Heortlings: men and women are equal in status and power, but have different roles.

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Nils Weinander
We sail on a ship made of dreams Received on Tue 13 Dec 2005 - 12:22:43 EET