Sippe
Template:Short description Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Sidebar/configuration' not found. Sippe is German for "clan, kindred, extended family" (Frisian Sibbe, Norse Sifjar).
It continues a Proto-Germanic term *sebjō, which referred to a band or confederation bound by a treaty or oath, not primarily restricted to blood relations.[1] The original character of sippe as a peace treaty is visible in Old English, e.g. in Beowulf (v. 1858):
- hafast þû gefêred, þæt þâm folcum sceal,
- Geáta leódum ond Gâr-Denum
- sib gemæne ond sacu restan.
The Sippe came to be a cognatic,[2] extended family unit, exactly analogous to the Scottish/Irish sept.[3]
Most of the information left about the nature and role of the Sippe is found in records left by the Lombards, Alamanni, and Bavarians.[4] One of the functions of the Sippe was regulating use of forests. The average Sippe likely contained no more than 50 families.[5] The Sippe seems to have been absorbed into the monogamous family later on; P.D. King asserts that this was already the case among the Visigoths during the time of the Visigothic Kingdom.[6]
See also
- Band (anthropology)
- Consanguinity
- Germanic tribes
- Kinship
- List of Germanic peoples
- Mund (in law)
- Norse clans
- Sibling
- Sif, a Norse goddess thought to personify the concept
- Sippenhaft
Footnotes
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- ^ Pfeifer: Template:In lang
- ^ David Herlihy, Medieval Households (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), 47
- ^ Herlihy, 32, 44, 51
- ^ Herlihy, 45.
- ^ Herlihy, 47.
- ^ P.D. King, Law and Society in the Visigothic Kingdom, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd ser. 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972), 233.
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