http://www.rootsweb.com/~mowarren/schake/part1b.html
which suggests that:
"These clansmen of northern Germany generally lived within an area of about a 40 mile diameter with 25,000 or so inhabitants per clan.Each clan consisted of numerous villages of about 100 families overseen by a headman."
Not sure what his sources are for his figures though.
Ian Cooper
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