Branwen wrote: I always find it funny when reconstructionist groups refuse to believe in slavery amongst the celts, or indeed, sacrifice. They will repeat the pleasant fiction that honour prices and other such things were measured in numbers of cows. Yeah - one slave = three cows = however many sheep etc... The coinage, the cumhal, is the same word for as the word for a slave. Modern writers just prefer to translate it in numbers of cows.
It was a very elite celtic society, it would be natural for a top down class system, which would have some sort of slavery at the bottom, I always thought of it like the feudal system. You can see the elitism in all the Welsh early celtic monasterys, its often a warrior/noble who becomes a monk, and a lot of the pedigrees of the early saints show them as sons of the ruling petty kings...
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