« Reply #9 on: Monday 26 May 25 21:35 BST (UK) »
I followed the link and found it mentioned the word "danelaw". I found this interesting as East Riding Yorkshire once paid the Vikings (the Danes of Denmark) a sort of ransome for not pillaging and plundering the land. The money given was known as "geld" pronounced "gelt" and my parents born early 1900s still used the word daily, as in: "I haven't any loose change (money/cash), have you any gelt, mother?".
"In Old English, "hide" (hida) was a unit of land measurement equivalent to the amount of land needed to support a household, typically around 120 acres (49 hectares). It was the basis for land taxation and was used for military mustering.
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