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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you rather be a Viking Woman/Celtic Warrior or an English Lady of the Manor who can't fathom how to put the tea on? I know which I'd prefer for my daughter these days. [/quote]

Given that the Viking / Celtic warrior woman lived in a highly patriarchal society where women were not only chattel but at high risk of rapes and brutal murders by a rival clan, and most likely lived a short and nasty and brutish and primitive live, I’m guessing you chose the lady of the manor in her safe and comfortable manor house with plenty of servants and a sense of order and respect and who occupied herself with the household management and organizing social events and leading charity endeavors.

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Those ladies were married off at menarche to men two to three times their age. The manor houses were not luxurious. And there was pretty good chance that your children would die in infancy and you in childbirth.

The best deal was to be a cloistered nun. You could have books and music, the diet was better than that of the nobility, and they lived longer than women in the outside world. [/quote]

Since tea didn't arrive in Britain until the 17th century and didn't become popular till the 18th century, we can safely assume the poster was referring to a lady of the manor (gentry or nobility) from the 18th century onward, probably a la Downton Abbey.

Definitely better to be a lady of the manor in the 18th-present than a Viking or Celtic warrior or a medieval nun. Too many historical revisionist fantasies have warped people of the realities of being a woman during the Celtic/Viking days. [/quote]

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