Thursday, March 3, 2011

Where Does The Term "Freelance" Come From?

I am sitting here, its a sunny afternoon and I am working on a rebuild of a large website for a historic castle.


Listening to Radio 2 (yep I know but I am in my mid 30s now!) I was interested to hear where the term "freelance" comes from - being a freelancer myself...

...well interestingly the term comes from a medieval knight that offered his lance free for hire. So now I know!

Pictured above: a medieval lance