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On Julyl 24, 1824, Norway got a new system, much more detailed than the earlier laws, in which 1 fod = 12 tomme; and 1 alen = 2 fodder; 1 mil = 18,000 alen; 1 rode = 5 alen; and 1 maal (mål) of land = 10,000 square fodder. One korn tønne (barrel of grain) was to be 41/2 cubic fodder or 8 skjepper. One tønne = 144 potter = 130.974 liter. And one fisketønne = 120 potter or 115.811 liter. A kanne had 2 potter each of which had 4 liter pel. In weights one pund had two mærker. One pund - 498.112 grams. One skippund = 20 lispund = 320 pund. (A lispund = 16 pund). One vaag = 3 bismerpund (one bismerpund=12 pund). | ''On Julyl 24, 1824, Norway got a new system'', much more detailed than the earlier laws, in which 1 fod = 12 tomme; and 1 alen = 2 fodder; 1 mil = 18,000 alen; 1 rode = 5 alen; and 1 maal (mål) of land = 10,000 square fodder. One korn tønne (barrel of grain) was to be 41/2 cubic fodder or 8 skjepper. One tønne = 144 potter = 130.974 liter. And one fisketønne = 120 potter or 115.811 liter. A kanne had 2 potter each of which had 4 liter pel. In weights one pund had two mærker. One pund - 498.112 grams. One skippund = 20 lispund = 320 pund. (A lispund = 16 pund). One vaag = 3 bismerpund (one bismerpund=12 pund). | ||
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1 mil = 10 kilometer | '''1 mil '''= 10 kilometer | ||
1 skjeppe = 20 liter | '''1 skjeppe '''= 20 liter | ||
1 mål = 1 dekar | '''1 mål '''= 1 dekar | ||
1 pund = 500 gram | '''1 pund '''= 500 gram | ||
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The terms for weights and measures occur most frequently since they are the terms used in daily commerce. | The terms for weights and measures occur most frequently since they are the terms used in daily commerce. | ||
In | In Norway's barter economy, and in any economy in which the value of the currency fluctuated, the taxes were set in terms of what the gaard (or farm) produced so that if the taxes of one gaard with a lot of grazing land had its txxes as "one hud, two skinn" it meant that the ta was the value of one hud and two skinn when the taxes were due. Along the coast the taxes might be vevied in the value of the fish, in the mountains, butter. In actuality the farmer usually did not deliver tanned hides, fish or butter to the official but rather the currency obtained from the sale of such. | ||
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<u>Meaures in Old Norway </u> | '''<u>Meaures in Old Norway </u>''' | ||
Measures by Volume: | Measures by Volume: | ||
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'''mål''' '''or maal''' - an old term adapted to metric use. In volumetric use a unit of one decitliter (6.1 cubic inches, or about one fifth of a pint). | '''mål''' '''or maal''' - an old term adapted to metric use. In volumetric use a unit of one decitliter (6.1 cubic inches, or about one fifth of a pint). | ||
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. | ||
<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. | |||
<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. | |||