Re: "Counting for Orlanthi"

• In HeroWars_at_yahoogroups.com, "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_s...> wrote: ntor initiate to help you)
  > >
  > > "Up to seven men, thieves; up to thirty-fivemen, a band; over
  > > thirty-five men, an army."
  >
  > A direct steal from the Laws of Ine (K. of Wessex, 688-695).
  

I didn't think it was original, I just wasn't aware of the source, and thought it might be appropriate to the quetion of raids...

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> Note that the typical longboat crew was about 35 men, so two boats =
> an army...

Probably not an accident!             Received on Sat 29 Mar 2003 - 18:22:34 EET