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''Sippe'' is German for "clan, kindred, extended family". 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.〔(Pfeifer ): 〕 The original character of ''sibb'' 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,〔David Herlihy, ''Medieval Households'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), 47〕 extended family unit, exactly analogous to the Scottish/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, and Bavarians.〔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 the Visigoths during the time of the Visigothic 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.〕 ==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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sippe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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