Titel: Otto Hjalmar Pettersson
Skrivet av: Bengt Nordstrand skrivet 1999-10-12, 22:13
Well, hemman is a farm, not just any home.
Thus hemmansägare, or hemmansegare in old spelling, is owner of a farm. The word was above all used for farmers who lived on, used and owned their own farms, as opposed to tenants. The word came into use, I think, around 1800, when more modern forms of landownership were established.