03-01-2009, 01:22 PM
In ancient breton laws (a corpus roughly dated between Vth and IXth centuries), ancilla (female slave) and servus (male slave) are given as compensations, and there is a lot of laws about them.
If you are interested and can read a bit of french, here a synthesis article I wrote about them:
http://schnucks0.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=388
If you are interested and can read a bit of french, here a synthesis article I wrote about them:
http://schnucks0.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=388
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert