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TastyVictory t1_ishhvgo wrote on October 16, 2022 at 12:52 AM

Reply to comment by Trackmaster15 in Anglo-Saxon hall where kings and warriors dined discovered in England by unheated1

Think of it as a modern day draft. Its only used for desperate times. The peasants were protected by not being sent off to war unless the alternative was everyone would be brutally killed any way.