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 ===''Landgilde'' and ''Hoveri''===
-''Indfæstning:'' the amount the tenants had to pay to begin residing on a farm or in a house; similar to a deposit.<br> ''Landgilde:'' the annual fee paid by tenants - either with cash or in kind, such as an amount of grain or pig.<br> ''Hoveri:'' work that tenants were required to do without pay. If a tenant could not pay taxes or not manage the farm well enough, the landowner would remove the tenant and replace him with a new tenant.
+''Indfæstning:'' the entrance fee the tenants had to pay to begin residing on a farm or in a house.<br> ''Landgilde:'' the annual fee paid by tenants - usually a combination of cash and kind, such as an amount of grain or pig.<br> ''Hoveri:'' work that tenants were required to do without pay. Also known as corvee labor. If a tenant could not pay taxes or not manage the farm well enough, the landowner would remove the tenant and replace him with a new tenant.
 For more information about ''hoveri'', see [http://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/hoveri/ Hoveri] from Aarhus University (in Danish).
-For more information on drudgery on copyhold farms, see this article:[[Denmark: Drudgery|Drudgery]].
+For more information on drudgery on copyhold farms, see the article: [[Denmark: Drudgery|Drudgery]].
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 ===Several kinds of documents===
-It is not only the protocols that can give information about tenants and their circumstances. ''Hoveriforordninger'' can be found in freight archives. These documents can reveal how much the peasant had to work for the landowner. There may be diaries of the head depot, where you can see exactly how much work the peasant had. There may also be business or land books, which gives names of tenants, as well as information on the living standards of the farms and houses they lived in.
+It is not only the protocols that can give information about tenants and their circumstances. ''Hoveriforordninger'' can be found in ''godsarkiv''. These documents can reveal how much the peasant had to work for the landowner. There may be diaries of the head depot, where you can see exactly how much work the peasant had. There may also be business or land books, which gives names of tenants, as well as information on the living standards of the farms and houses they lived in.