Of course, there’s probably not a lot of single combat here… In truth, there wasn’t much in the Weeping Lands either. Some decisions were much too important to rest on who had the superior strength of arms. In practice, everyone pretended that it was an option and then the clan lords arranged matters so that hardly anyone ever actually did it. There was a lot of posturing and holding one’s fellows back. Indeed, one of the slang terms for “brother-in-law” translated as “arm-holder.”
