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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote: > Christian Thalmann scripsit: > > 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. Strange... it's not related to the size of a cow hide then? ;-) -- Christian Thalmann