Norway Weights and Measurement: Difference between revisions

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'''mil --after 1824, 18,000 alen or 11.3 kilometers'''.  '''In 1874 the distance of 10 kilometers or 6.2 English miles'''.  
'''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.
'''fjerding(er) '''- a quarter of a mil, then as now.  Now equal to two and a half kilometers or 1. 5425 English miles.
 
tomme(r) - about an inch, a term meaning thumb.  There were 12 tommer in a fod (fot).
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