Crossword-Solution: DAER 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

This population was divided into two great classes, the _Saer-Clanna_, or free tribes, chiefly, if not exclusively, of Milesian race; and the _Daer-Clanna_, or unfree tribes, consisting of the descendants of the subjugated older races, or of clans once free, reduced to servitude by the sword, or of the posterity of foreign mercenary soldiers.

This simile seems to have been borrowed from a popular game among the Britons called _pelre_, which consisted in the beating of a ball backwards and forwards, and is alluded to by Taliesin in the following lines; “Ceiniadon moch clywid eu govalon: Marchawglu mor daer am Gaer Llion; A dial Idwal ar Aranwynion A gware pelre a phen Saeson.” (Myv.

Macdonell reports to Lord Selkirk that "as soon as the place at Pembina took some form and a decent flagstaff was erected on it, it was called Fort Daer." It is said that in most years the buffaloes were very numerous and so tame that they came to the Trader's Fort and rubbed their backs upon its stockaded enclosure.

The building of Fort Daer was an evidence of occupation that caused the jealous Canadian pioneers to pause.

The influx of new and old settlers to the Colony, and the imperfect preparations made for their shelter and sustenance led to the whole Company betaking itself for the winter to Pembina, where at Fort Daer they might be within reach of the buffalo herds.