Our e-pal hbd*chick has just put up a fascinating post on the Hajnal Line.
The what?
The Hajnal Line marks a boundary between areas of Europe characterized by different marriage practices. Among hbd*chick’s primary areas of interest is the effect these differences have had on both culture and genome in historical time.
Hie thee thither and learn more.
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Oh. I tries and I tries & what does I get for my efforts?
Incoming!
Malcolm? You get a scrip from a Colorado MD?
One man’s “fascinating” is another’s “frustrating”. The post is an encyclopedic sprawl of interesting facts and/or conjectures, badly in need of an editor or two. The devil-may-care gramatical style doesn’t help, either.
And what the heck does “inside a line” mean?
Amazing thing this internet. One can learn much of individuals just by following along on a comment thread.
For instance TheBigHenry, I now know you don’t watch, Locked Up Abroad.
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Those busted “riding” the Marrakesh Express spoke of living inside a line.
hbd*chick also speaks of “inside a line”. I still don’t get what that means.
The Hajnal Line encloses an area of Western Europe. (It’s really several lines.)
Think of it as an eruv. Within the boundary it demarcates, certain traditions apply.
Only if the line is a closed loop.
Well, the sea does some of the work. The original line went north-south, so it would have been “west of the line”, but then southern Iberia, southern Italy, Hibernia, etc. got nipped off as well, so it became more of an enclosed region.
Anyway, you get the idea now, right?
Or maybe, the line extends across the land extending on both the north and southern ends over and into some body of water.
(Assuming few of the locals on either side wisht to canoe for “strange” places.)
Yeah, yeah.
Sloppy presentation …