From: David Dunham (dunham@pensee.com)
Date: Sat 01 Jul 2000 - 06:34:33 EEST
Alex Ferguson wrote
> > 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.
I disagree. If this were the case, then no killing within a clan
could be solved with wergild. And since the clan is the basic unit of
Orlanthi society, justice must work at the clan level.
David Dunham <mailto:dunham@pensee.com>
Glorantha/HW/RQ page: <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html>
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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