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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] Toadkiller needs to buy me things in Iceland & ship them to me to satisfy my fetish. In a way...we DO use a uniquely Icelandic concept, that of the [i]go�ar[/i] & the [i]b�ndr[/i]. See, in medieval Iceland (that being roughly the time of settlement in the 800s to about AD 1200) the Icelanders were NOT as one might think marauding Vikings with blood & murder on their minds. Indeed, they were the perhaps the most law-abiding & anarchistic group in the history of the "civilized" world; their conversion to Christianity around 1000 was even a legal decision that was come to after much debate at the [i]Althing[/i]. ANyway, back to [i]go�ar[/i] & [i]b�ndr[/i]. All Icelanders were [i]b�ndr[/i], simple citizen-farmers. However, some of them were also [i]go�ar[/i], a sort of "more influential" farmer who had the generally-recognized influence to mediate disputes & the like, & exerted it over a rough area called a [i]go�ord[/i]. (I'm REALLY oversimplifying things here) A [i]go�i[/i] (the singular form) knew that his position came from the [i]b�ndr[/i] & could be shifted at anytime. Some [i]b�ndr[/i] pledged to [i]go�ar[/i] who were 2 days' walk away, so there was no need to take to the local one. The key here was that while a [i]go�i[/i] was slightly elevated in status, he was stil at heart just another [i]bondi[/i] (also singular). Similarly, here at Flare we have moderators who have slightly elevated positions, yet still know that they're just "regular farmers," so to speak. Their power (mostly) comes from us, the masses, & they know better than to lord their position over us. I bet TrekBBS moderators get all wankerific. I know far too much about Icelandic political history. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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