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Christian Thalmann scripsit:
> > 6. thousand
> > A thousand hides of my land were taken as part of the mines.
>
> Un juoger mi ys terra fi caftun cun ei mine.
> [@n 'ju@g...@r mi y tEr fi 'gaft@ kun e 'vi:n]
>
> Note the usage of official IB units of measurements. =)
> I assumed a hide to be some 2 m^2.
Not hardly. A hide was enough land to support a single (peasant) family.
The size varied widely, depending on the quality of the land, but
ranged from 500,000 m^2 down to perhaps a quarter of that.
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