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Quote:Quote:The only thing we can really learn from burial or cremation customs is
Yes, true, and also that all the people buried in ancient times are thoroughly dead. :roll:
Is that really a sure thing tho'
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Quote:M. Demetrius:19g0spst Wrote:Yes, true, and also that all the people buried in ancient times are thoroughly dead. :roll:
Is that really a sure thing tho' hock:
Well, it's true now.
And they knew how to deal with zombies...hence the headless ones.
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As for weapons for self-defence, you could turn actually everything esp. tools into weapons if you need to. So if you are working in a kitchen there are so many things lying around which you could turn into a weapon.
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Quote:So if you are working in a kitchen
Or the garden, or the orchard...
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The presence of women in Germanic warbands, as well as the presence of weapons in what appear to be female Anglo-Saxon graves, may be directly related to who was the head of the family in Germanic society. Male and female roles were not absolutely fixed. We know, for example that in Anglo-Saxon society, if a woman's husband died and her father was already dead and she did not have a son old enough to act in his own right, then she assumed the status of a man in her own society. It might be feasable to think that this might have extended to the carrying of weapons. A similar situation existed in Scandanavian society. In a similar way, an old and enfeebled man was no longer counted among the men and could be classed instead with the women.
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Hence the term 'fighting like old men and women'....
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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