19th December 2005, 11:58 PM
the child certainly could have inherited the right to carry weapons, but that does not imply that they were warriors, or that the person from which they inherited the right was necessarily one either. The weapon may have ceased to be an actual weapon to be used and had taken on a symbolic meaning instead, probably related to the qualities that a warrior was ideally meant to show, but not necessarily implying that the person buried with the weapon was an actual warrior.
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++