A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.
There was fosterage for affection, for payment and for a literary education.
Fosterage began when the child was a year old and ended when the marriageable age was reached, unless previously terminated by death or crime.
Its relation to the white stria of Gennari is especially interesting, and is recorded by Elliot Smith in the Anatomischer Anzeiger, Bd.
Another very ancient and stable sulcus is the orbital, which is a simple antero-posterior line until Man is reached (see fig.
The teacher was a literary foster-father, and as such, he was bound by the laws of fosterage to supply wholesome food in abundance to his pupils according to the rank of their parents.
Guairy was the brother of a bishop who was related by fosterage to St. Ruadan of Lorrha, and when King Dermot sent to arrest the murderer these clergy found him a hiding-place.
It is said that Mananan mac Lir had a daughter who was given in fosterage to the Danaan prince Angus, whose fairy palace was at Brugh na Boyna.
When the latter, the fosterage price was regulated according to the rank of the chief, and varied from three cows in the case of the son of an Og-Aire, or lowest chief, to thirty cows for the son of a king.
O'Donovan renders a very ancient commentary on the first clause of the law of fosterage as follows: "What are their victuals?
Fosterage is, I believe, sometimes performed upon more liberal terms.
The terms offosterage seem to vary in different islands.
Fosterage consisted in putting out the child to be reared by a tribesman who became its foster-father.
Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.
Here we may have the source and origin of those variations in the direction of fosterage and protection which we have seen to have such important and far-reaching consequences in the development of organic life.
It is not too much to say that, without fosterageand protection, the higher forms of evolution would be impossible.
But there can be no doubt that, accompanying that fosterage and protection which is of such marked import in the higher animals, there is also much retardation.
In those animals in which the system offosterage and protection has not been developed a great number of fertilized ova are produced, only a few of which come to maturity.
There is a longer or shorter period of fosterage and protection--longer in the case of man than in that of any of the lower animals--ere the offspring are fitted to fend for themselves in life's struggle.
However, by the Celtic custom of fosterage the infant is intrusted to Sir Ector as his dalt, or foster-child, and Uther falls in battle.
The Celtic custom offosterage is overlooked, and Merlin gives the child to Anton, not as the customary dalt, but to preserve the babe from danger.
In the first place, it is not wise for any man that is not a king to take the fosterageof a king's son, for if aught shall happen to the lad, his own life is in the king's hands and with his life he shall answer for it.
When Mardas saw Gharib his reason fled, and he said to him, "O my son, I am under thy protection: so deliver me in right of my fosterage of thee!
They may be grouped under the heads of fosterage of commerce and industry, supervision of navigation, protection, notarial functions.
At a year they left their own thresholds, and their fosterage ended only at marriage.
The plan of adoption in Polynesia is matched to a degree by the fosterage common in Ireland in early days.
Irish Memories shows incidentally how great a part this fosterage played in the Ross of yesterday--that family with its multitude of children was bound to the countryside by all the "Nursies.
This conjecture is corroborated by the numerous instances in history and in story of fosterage affection proving, when tested, stronger than the natural affection of relatives by birth.
As modern life does not comprise either the custom or a reason for it, we may assume that fosterage was a consequence of the clan system, and that its practice strengthened the ties of kinship and sympathy.
