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<p><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span>The author also talks about sacrificing the king if the people are having a hard go of it. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size: 16px;font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color: transparent;font-style: normal;"><span>Ermanaric, the Greuthingi Goth king killed himself (a self-sacrifice was suggested in one of the history texts I read) when he was losing to the Huns. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size: 16px;font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color: transparent;font-style: normal;"><span> If one is true, it makes me think that the other might also be true.</span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size: 16px;font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color: transparent;font-style: normal;"><span>Any suggestions or comments?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size: 16px;font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color: transparent;font-style: normal;"><span>Tom</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:39 AM, OSCAR HERRE <duke.co@sbcglobal.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2038406279"><div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size: 12pt;"><div><span></span></div><div>I was curious about their daily habits ....worship, food and farming,.....shelter for themselves,etc.....</div><div>feasts and drinking such as wine or whatever they did do relieve themselves......<br clear="none"></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="yiv2038406279hr" style="height:0px;font-size:0px;"></div> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> marja erwin <marja-e@riseup.net><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> gothic-l@yahoogroups.com <br clear="none">
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:22 AM<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [gothic-l] Killing the Elderly<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv2038406279y_msg_container">
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<div>On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 08:17 -0800, the_lothian@yahoo.com wrote:<br clear="none">
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> I am reading "Barbarian Rites" by Hans-Peter Hasenfratz. In his<br clear="none">
> chapter on Society and its Values he writes<br clear="none">
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> The practice of killing the elderly, which is attested among the<br clear="none">
> eastern and northern Germanic peoples, was probably connected to the<br clear="none">
> idea of sparing "useless mouths" from the fate of a straw death.<br clear="none">
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> The straw-death referring to dying in your bed. <br clear="none">
> Can anyone help me confirm this before I put it into my novel?<br clear="none">
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> Thanks,<br clear="none">
> Tom<br clear="none">
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This is the firs I've heard of it. This would, if true, show up in<br clear="none">
funerary archaeology, so it should be testable.<br clear="none">
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