Cool example, but clearly the woman is legitimised by her relationship
to the land owner. Not like this in Esrolia as far as I know.
Mikko Rintasaari wrote:
>> My main concern is the way that nearly all portrayals of Matriarchal
>> society in popular culture are spurious at best and often ridiculous.
>
> I'm not sure what you are going for, but here's an example from the real
> world.
>
> During our parallel to the Viking era (we didn't do the ship raiding
> thing) the finns were divided into large tribes with no strong central
> leadership (even on the tribal level). The society mostly centerer around
> wealthy farmers (big houses and lots of land) as sort of free carls.
>
> In this society it was the top woman of the house (the wife) that wielded
> the wealth and power. The traditional woman's dress contained much of the
> ready cash in jewelry, and was impressive and expensive othervice too. The
> men were often away for weeks or months at a time hunting and fighting, so
> it made sense for the women to be the stowards who bossed the workforse
> around and run the house.
>
> Parhaps not quite a matriarchy, but one could argue that the women held
> more wealth and power than the men.
>
> -Adept
Received on Tue 04 Jul 2006 - 15:42:47 EEST