Norway Military Records: Difference between revisions

'''Skipreie.  '''A ''Skipreie'' or ''Skiprede'' was an area assigned to ourfit a ship for military use.  Its size was determind according to the number of farms in the area and did not usually include the entire parish.  A skipreie may have included a number of farms of a given parish while another skipreie included the remaining farms in the same parish.  A skipreie was not confined to a parish border and may have included farms in several parishes.  As the population grew, the area a given skipreie included became smaller.  Today a skipreie is called Skipsrederi and is a factory in a city or town where ships are being built.   

'''Fjerding.  '''A ''Fjerding'' is an old administrative jurisdiction that subdivided a county, district (Herred), and sometimes also a skipreie (skiprede).  Standardized spellings  of place name (names) can first be found in the early1900s in Norway.  Therefore, these terms may be spelled several different ways.   

The ''Fjerding'' was not the only jurisdiction used in the middle ages, but it seems to have been an important one for the church and states.  It is the remnant of an ancient system that was still being used in Rogaland County in conjunction with larger court district even in the 1700s and 1800s.  

The term ''Fjerding ''is mainly used in early records in Norway. A ''Fjerding'' could also mean 1/4th of a county in western Norway, or in Iceland it could men 1/4th of the whole country. In the middle ages a ''Fjerding'' could mean 1/4th of a large distirct or area.