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Originally Posted by Ealasaide
At the age of 43, I consider any gentleman under the age of 35 as a "young man."
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Soon celebrating my 40th birthday myself I tend to think the same in RL... it just looked to me like you were talking about a twenty-something there.
That may be a language-issue as well as in Finnish a "young man" is much more twenty - even younger - than thirty...
Indeed that raised the question of how old people in the Mead Hall are in the first place? I remember that Garstan is 35 (and Modtryth is few years younger than Stigend eg. 27-28) but how about Garwine or Thornden? Lord Eodwine needs to be a mature person I quess as well as Falco, right? How about Ginna or Kara? Or the newcomers?
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For future reference, what descriptive would you prefer?
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Honestly I have no idea... But now as I think of it I can see one more reason why the "young man" kind of bothered me. For I have myself always thought of Stigend to look a lot older than his age because of the hard wandering life, tough manual labor in construction sites, defending his odd family from peoples scorn and sometimes violence...
But you couldn't naturally know that as I think I haven't talked about that too much after my first postings here. So sorry about the inconvenience.