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 year, and is counted hard work. Forn means to be fed.

The wisdom of limiting one's expenditure to their resources is well expressed in the sayings:

The mistress of the house was looked upon as the maet-midder, and hungry bairns did not consider her exhausted larder, and often cried for a kröl when the mael-pock was empty. Even the head of the house forgot the very limited resources of his better-half. Hence the following old sayings:

In olden times the people were largely