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Christian Thalmann scripsit:I assumed a hide to be some 2 m^2.
John Cowan wrote: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.
Christian Thalmann wrote:
Strange... it's not related to the size of a cow hide then? ;-)
Even that must be more than 2 m^2; but consider Queen Dido. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/