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0 pointsGibbon18y ago0 comments

You realize of course then that surfs (and their descendants) became surfs via an oath of bandage.

Of course you do.

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I suspect they usually became serfs by way of a great warlord saying to a lesser one: here is your territory and these people are your serfs.

Whatever oath there was, was purely pro forma, and the alternative was death or banishment.

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0 pointsGibbon18y ago0 comments

You realize of course then that surfs (and their descendants) became surfs via an oath of bandage.

Of course you do.

I suspect they usually became serfs by way of a great warlord saying to a lesser one: here is your territory and these people are your serfs.

Whatever oath there was, was purely pro forma, and the alternative was death or banishment.

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