From: ian_hammond_cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_...>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:48:00 -0000
Darran wrote:
> If we take that sixteen carls and their families live and work a
stead, a stead will have sixteen hides as its cultivated lands. With
forty acres per hide that is 640 acres per stead.
FWIW, Report on the Orlanthi (King of Sartar) has figures of: carl 80
acres, half-carl 27 acres, and cottar - garden plot only. However,
terms like hide and family are fairly elastic, so I think we can be
too.