Note 543 — Chapter XVI · SOCIETY IN THE HEROIC AGE.
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From Od. IV 644 and VI 489 f. it seems probable on the whole that there existed a class of landless freemen corresponding to the Ang.-Sax. geburas. But no information apparently is given with regard to the κλῆρος—whether it corresponded at all to the hide of the gafolgelda (roughly comparable with the Athenian ζευγίτης) or whether it represented normally a much larger estate.