Land held in bondage or servitude; feudal land worked by serfs or unfree peasants.
From 'bond' plus 'land,' a Germanic compound reflecting medieval property terminology. The word appears in historical documents describing feudal estates and their unfree tenants.
Bondland was simultaneously the source of all wealth for feudal lords and the prison for the peasants—the same earth that fed both made one master and another bound, embodying the fundamental inequality of feudal systems.
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