The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

[523.] The Welsh 'trev' and German 'dorf' probably are from the same root.

[524.] '"Ager" dictus qui a divisoribus agrorum relictus est ad pascendum communiter vicinis.' Isodorus, De Agris. Lachmann and Rudorff, i. p. 369.

[525.] Germania, xxviii. and xxix.

[526.] These tribes are mentioned by Cæsar as forming part of the army of Ariovistus. De Bello Gallico, lib. i. c. 51.

[527.] Germania, xxx.–xxxvii.

[528.] Germania, xxxviii.–xlv.

[529.] He regarded the 'Agri Decumates' as 'hardly in Germany.'

[530.] This result did not follow in Wales, because in Welsh local names suffixes are not usual.

[531.] Gavelkind may be derived from gabel, a fork or branch, and the word is used in Ireland as well as in Kent. Irish gabal, gabal-cined (Gavelkind). Manners, &c. of the Ancient Irish. O'Curry, iii. p. 581.

[532.] Origins of English History, pp. 188–9.