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- noun Plural form of
hirdman .
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And if one of the hirdmen of the armed brotherhoods offered the peasants some cattle for a fresh start, some iron to make a plough, if not the plough itself, his protection from further raids, and a number of years free from all obligations, before they should begin to repay the contracted debt, they settled upon the land.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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