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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Those old Germanic tribes were real male chauvinists. 
(Seriously though, most people at that time probably were).
I wonder if man=human also occurs in other languages besides the Germanic? |
Women could have a very high status in Viking societies and were arguably much freer than in the period after Christianity. So I'm not sure such conclusions can be drawn from the man-human word connection
(I don't know much about the southern varieties of Germanic or the societies where they developed, though.)