Do you know what freelancing is? Where and how did the word freelancing come from?

 Do you know what freelancing is? Where and how did the word freelancing come from? Today I will discuss the history of freelancing with you. Let's get started.

History of freelancing

Literally freelancing has always been used in a war sense.

if you talk to people who are unemployed or looking for work these days. you'll hear a word over again that's 'freelancing'. Freelancing usually means "pursuing a career without long-term commitment with an employer."Usually, freelancers are self-employed. They decide for themselves who will work or when. You can call them tenants. And if you do, you'll be far from the real meaning of the word.

The first written evidence of freelancing came from Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe in 1819. Where a lord mentions paying the army for his 'freelance'.When freelancers first came to English in the early 1800s, the word freelancing was used to refer to medieval tenants. Who fought for the highest wages of any race or individual.

The first written evidence of this use is in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, where a feudal lord mentions his combined army:

"I offered my freelance service to Richard, and he refused - I would take them to Hele, interrupt shipping, and sail for Flanders; Thanks to the busy time, a man of action will always find employment".

The stimulus is rapidly gaining momentum where a person who does any kind of work in his interest and has without a permanent or long-term commitment to the employer.

Interestingly, however, the phenomenon of freelancing was well documented during or before the Middle Ages. Even the term freelancing originated in the 19th century.

However, most of the fancy words used in English for these tenants in the Middle Ages came after the Middle Ages: condottiere, which refers to the leader of a band of tenants, and Lansquenet, which refers to tenants, especially in Germany. 

But the origin of freelancers is basically from fighters who work for money.

So what was a freelancer called before we became a freelancer? Medieval Latin records show that mercenaries were often called stipends (or stipends, meaning they were given a stipend for fighting), soldiers ("soldiers"), or simply mercenaries.