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[2] hǫlða ‘men’: The meaning here is perhaps influenced by OE hæleð ‘heroes’ (Hofmann 1955, 43), though the more general meaning ‘man’ is fairly common in verse: see LP: hǫlðr. The word usually means ‘yeoman, holder of allodial land’.