>>6157002>>6157189>>6157197>FEMALE SLAVE GIRLS literally the currency of IrelandI am super addicted to Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest from the Brytenwalda dev studio this videogame is so incredible lol, the sounds when you order a shield wall with the throwing spears and arrows whistling overhead and they even bash their shields hehe and then you scythe down all opponents from the flanks it is so satisfying yay
Anyway I have been inspired by reading a lot of Dark Ages legal sources, there is a disputed theory that coinage in this era 9th, 10th century may mostly have been used for paying fines and taxes, the actual economy may not have been monetised, though there are some arguments that also contradict this. I also learnt about Frisia and Dorestad lol (basically Netherlands, but Germanic) I had never heard of these places before but the game portrays them as the glitch / infinite money wool exploit vast wealth trading centres tee hee hee. Also I like keeping cows in my inventory alongside a collection of swords spears and axes, the cows give you free butter yay
Maybe the path of viking plunderer rapist slave trader is wrong, maybe becoming a BUTTER MERCHANT is the way
Here is an extract I found from Cain Adomnain, or Lex Innocentium promulgated by Iona Abbey amongst the Gaelic and Pictish Kings in 697 AD. It is essentially like the UN and the Geneva Convention, don't murder noncombatants except you can ravish women if you pay some milking cows as a fine afterwards. I looked up what currency this "cumal" (cum...?) is worth it is apparently one female bondservant or SLAVE GIRL, three cumals approximately the worth of one milking cow, this is the price of maidenly virtue
https://web.archive.org/web/20150708182128/http://travels-in-time.net/e/scotland12arteng.htm(excerpt from Cain Adomnain, The Law Of The Innocents 697 AD)
50: If there is rape of a girl, seven half-cumals is the fine for it. If a hand is laid on her, or on her girdle, ten ounces is the fine for it. If a hand is put under her clothing to her shame, three ounces and seven cumals is the fine for it....
51: If someone makes a good woman blush, by denying her children's paternity, accusing her of concupiscence, seven cumals is the fine for it, down to but not including the wife of an ordinary lord. Seven half-cumals if she is the wife of an ordinary lord. From there down to the wife of a chieftain, seven ounces.
This source gives the exchange
1 milch cow = 3 Cumhal (female slave) = 1 ounce of silver
https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/tag/cumal/ 