From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 29 Jun 2000 - 19:00:30 EEST
David Dunham:
> I've always assumed that among the Orlanthi (both Ralian and
> Heortling), a bloodline is responsible for paying wergild.
I think at least _de jure_, it's the entire clan. Naturally if the
clan gets forced to pay wergeld, it's going to have to actually
come up with the cash from someplace, and lineage members are the
obvious candidates... Trickle-down economics in action?
Cheers,
Alex.
------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 13 Jun 2003 - 21:54:04 EEST