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I first knew about it from George R. R. Martin's novels Song of Ice and Fire, for anyone who doesn't know what it is, it refers to a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, and elsewhere, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, the abstract of the Wikipedia article claims that there is no evidence of the practice, citing this paper, and yet it goes on to mention various historical references from around the world, if it was a myth, then why do we find many accounts of it from different regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa ?
If it was real, what effect would it have on the Y-dna of the population ? I have a wild theory, maybe this is how R1b displaced previous Y-haplogroups of the neolithic, you don't need mass slaughter of men and enslavement of women to explain how maternal lineages survived, while paternal ones didn't.
Or maybe it's all just a myth ?
Sorry if the subject is uncomfortable, it seems I have a talent for creating controversial topics, it's not the first time lol.
If it was real, what effect would it have on the Y-dna of the population ? I have a wild theory, maybe this is how R1b displaced previous Y-haplogroups of the neolithic, you don't need mass slaughter of men and enslavement of women to explain how maternal lineages survived, while paternal ones didn't.
Or maybe it's all just a myth ?
Sorry if the subject is uncomfortable, it seems I have a talent for creating controversial topics, it's not the first time lol.