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'''<u>Meaures in Old Norway </u>''' | '''<u>Meaures in Old Norway </u>''' | ||
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tønne(r) or tunne, or tønde - a barrel, cask or drum measuring about 4 bushels (for fish, grain, potoatoes, etc.). One tønne was equal to 4 kvart; in the 1600s one tønne if grain was 4 mæler equal to 16 fjerdinger equal to 72 kanner. About 144 liters, although a tønne of grain is sometimes listed as 139 liters and a tønne of fish 116 liters. | tønne(r) or tunne, or tønde - a barrel, cask or drum measuring about 4 bushels (for fish, grain, potoatoes, etc.). One tønne was equal to 4 kvart; in the 1600s one tønne if grain was 4 mæler equal to 16 fjerdinger equal to 72 kanner. About 144 liters, although a tønne of grain is sometimes listed as 139 liters and a tønne of fish 116 liters. | ||
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<u>'''Areal Measure'''</u>''':''' | |||
'''mål or maal '''- now 100 square meters (0.247 acres or about one fourth of an acre). An old term adapted for metric use. | |||
''' | '''mæling '''- was the area of a field which it was estimated one could now in a day, or sometimes precisely 100 square meters -- see mål. | ||
''' | '''tønne(r)''' - when used in the context of land measure about one acre. | ||
''' | '''fjerding(er)''' - not a unit in istself but often used to mean a quarter of some governmental unit, a parish, county, city, etc. | ||
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<u>'''Lineas Measure:'''</u> | |||
'''mil --after 1824, 18,000 alen or 11.3 kilometers'''. '''In 1874 the distance of 10 kilometers or 6.2 English miles'''. | |||
fjerding(er) - a quarter of a mil, then as now. Now equal to two and a half kiometers or 1. 5425 Englis miles. | |||