Excerpt from The Earliest Guilds of Northmen in England, Norway and DenmarkFirst of all: The word guild itself is probably a Scandi navian loan-word (2 Old Norse gildi), and is not derived from anglo-saxon yield, which in modern English would be yield.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.