- Sippe
Sippe is German for "
clan , kindred,extended family ". It continues aProto-Germanic term "*sibbja", which referred to a band or confederation bound by a treaty oroath , not primarily restricted to blood relations. [http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemmode=lemmasearch&mode=hierarchy&textsize=600&onlist=&word=Sippe&lemid=GS29541&query_start=1&totalhits=0&textword=&locpattern=&textpattern=&lemmapattern=&verspattern=#GS29541L0 Grimm] : "pax, foedus, affinitas, propinquitas" " (v. 1858)::"hafast þû gefêred, þät þâm folcum sceal,:"Geáta leódum ond Gâr-Denum:"sib gemæne ond sacu restan.The Sippe came to be a cognatic, [
David Herlihy , "Medieval Households" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), 47] extended family unit, exactly analogous to the Irish sept. [Herlihy, 32, 44, 51]Most of the information left about the nature and role of the "Sippe" is found in records left by the
Lombards ,Alamanni , andBavarians . [Herlihy, 45.] One of the functions of the Sippe was regulating use of forests. The average Sippe likely contained no more than 50 families. [Herlihy, 47.] The Sippe seems to have been absorbed into the monogamous family later on; P.D. King asserts that this was already the case among theVisigoths during the time of theVisigothic Kingdom . [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.]Footnotes
ee also
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Band (anthropology)
*Sibling
*Norse clans
*Germanic tribes
*List of Germanic peoples
*Kinship
*Clan
*Sept (social)
*Extended family
*Consanguinity
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