Note 156 — Chapter IV · LANDED POSSESSION. THE EÐEL, HÍD OR ALOD.

I do not know the present average amount of a Frisian or Westphalian Hof, but the peasant-farms a little below Cologne, on the left bank of the Rhine, average from 30 to 50 acres. See Banfield, Agricult. Rhine, p. 10. The Bavarian Hof of two Huben contains from 50 to 60 juckert (each juckert equal to 40,000 square Bavarian feet, or nearly a jugerum). This brings the Hof from about 36 to 40 acres. See Schmeller, Baierisch. Wörterbuch, ii. 142, voc. Hueb. Schmeller’s remarks on Hof are worth consulting, and especially his opinion that it may mean a necessary measure or portion. See also Grimm, Rechtsalt. p. 535.