Think he then had to support both “wives”. But women could also divorce men in that scenario afaik, and it was a kind of fault divorce system so would have been punitive on the man in cases of adultery I imagine. However, while there was a kind of standard brehon law at any given time (it wasn’t a static system) its practice would vary between clans, and we don’t know as much as we would like about even the standard versions truth be told.
Think he then had to support both “wives”. But women could also divorce men in that scenario afaik, and it was a kind of fault divorce system so would have been punitive on the man in cases of adultery I imagine. However, while there was a kind of standard brehon law at any given time (it wasn’t a static system) its practice would vary between clans, and we don’t know as much as we would like about even the standard versions truth be told.
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