hedeby

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

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"Hedeby (the heath-settlement) was Scandinavia's most southerly mercantile center. It is situated at the inner part of the Schlei fjord south of the town Schleswig (by which it was succeeded in the mid-eleventh century when it was destroyed by fire)."

From Danish Hedeby, from Old Norse Heiða-býr (literally “heath-settlement”).

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