The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
构成社会的其他阶级，首先是自由人，拥有一小部分土地，独立自主，尽管他们有时自愿成为更富裕的邻居的附庸，而这些邻居的权力对他们的保护是必要的。