| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - One hastens to add that Mair did not invent his theory out of thin air: it is solidly based on memories of the ancient Celtic political institution of tanistry, whereby kings and other leaders were chosen by a mixed system of heredity and election. (There is a very good treatment of this custom in Francis John Bryne, Irish Kings and High Kings, Dublin, 1973).
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