Google verrät mir, was tanistry ist. In dem Zusammenhang, in dem ich es brauche:
A custom among various Celtic tribes–notably in Scotland and Ireland–by which the king or chief of the clan was elected by family heads in full assembly. He held office for life and was required by custom to be of full age, in possession of all his faculties, and without any remarkable blemish of mind or body. At the same time and subject to the same conditions, a tanist, or next heir to the chieftaincy, was elected, who, if the king died or became disqualified, at once became king.
Leider konnte ich aber kein deutsches Wort dafür finden. Gibt es überhaupt eines?
Sorry für ausnahmsweises Crossposting zu Fremdsprachen.
Livia