>>876765All current life is modern life, OP.
I think you mean, "consumerist life", and/or "higher technological life". Take for instance those sickles they are using. To this day, a great portion of people on the planet have their lives depend directly on the use of sickles in agriculture and would not be alive if it wasn't for their use. Yet, the sickle is "low tech" and part of your "non-modern life" picture.
>>876799That's not how it works. You are the one who is "paid" to take her in marriage. Google "dowry". The specifics of the arrangement differ greatly from culture to culture. The young heifer in the background, a sack of grain, rights to breed the heifer with their steer, and rights to farm, hunt, and fish on the family land should be dowry enough. But, that means you'll be within a day's walking distance of that area.
