07-24-2009, 03:37 PM
I was wondering about the safety outside the villages and towns in the Gallic provinces...
Could one ( a sales man) travel from town to town by it self? Or would he have needed an armed "bodyguard".
And what about other people, could mother and daughter go and visit a relative who lived somewhere else?
How many outlaws would wander around in between the different Celtic tribes and kingdoms...
Would they live in packs and attack baggage trains from traders or maybe rob cattle and steal from the farmers who work out in the field?
You automatically start thinking about the medieval situation, but with the tight community's in the Celtic world (and the Roman control and military activities) things might be a little different...
I am also thinking about the native American situation, where there are more friendly or more warlike tribes, that go and steal cattle from others every ones and a while... But where (I think) individuals are relatively save outside in the field and their surrounding nature... Did this happen in the Celtic world before and maybe durring the Roman "controle"?? Whe do know about the Irish epos about the great cattle stealing. but how common whas this?
So anyone an idea?
Could one ( a sales man) travel from town to town by it self? Or would he have needed an armed "bodyguard".
And what about other people, could mother and daughter go and visit a relative who lived somewhere else?
How many outlaws would wander around in between the different Celtic tribes and kingdoms...
Would they live in packs and attack baggage trains from traders or maybe rob cattle and steal from the farmers who work out in the field?
You automatically start thinking about the medieval situation, but with the tight community's in the Celtic world (and the Roman control and military activities) things might be a little different...
I am also thinking about the native American situation, where there are more friendly or more warlike tribes, that go and steal cattle from others every ones and a while... But where (I think) individuals are relatively save outside in the field and their surrounding nature... Did this happen in the Celtic world before and maybe durring the Roman "controle"?? Whe do know about the Irish epos about the great cattle stealing. but how common whas this?
So anyone an idea?
Folkert van Wijk
Celtic Auxilia, Legio II Augusta.
With a wide interrest for everything Celtic BC
Celtic Auxilia, Legio II Augusta.
With a wide interrest for everything Celtic BC