:u)7 hund r(iernianic loan-words I'roni Latin hcrediinn aiul urutnim, rosultiiii' in the word luindcred: hdrud should he identical with the last part of the latter word. These w'ords, luind hercd{(t) and hund (irudiu) were in ])oint of languai^e expressions of the same meaning' as ‘‘100(1201 ploui^ddands". that exists in the haii,dish lOO-hides, a eoneei^lion that according to research must h(‘ supposed to have connection with the territorial hundred, which exisli‘d in I'aigland during the lOlh century. Siiderlind even lakes up the cpiestion of how the numhers 100 - 120 have come to l)e the basis for the subdivision of territories and emphasizes that the jiroletic hund, of which there is evidence in iMigland already in the 71h century, is a very old. stereotyped expression, that clearly indicates the number 00 as the basis of tlie long bundred. 'I'he numbers 00—120 no doubt are based on the Homan ccuturiu, originally a division of 100 men. which however did not correspond to its name hut generally consisted of 00 men ap])earing usually in doid)ledivisions of 120 men. the so-called in(tnif)ulus. In command of a ceuturiu was a ceuturio: the title of the commander consequently remained conceptually bound to the number of 100. I'he proletic hund of the old English language was an etymological remnant of military origin: it denoted the two centurias of 00 men. which formed the m(iui[)ulus of the Homan legion during the last century B.C. 'I'he knowledge of the origins of the long hundred, however, will not be of much help in deciding which number, either 100 or 120. to which the source refers. If no further information is available and no innate reasons given, then doubt still exists. According to Söderlind it is more than probable that the oldest subdivision of the Swedish lands in matter and formis a centuriation of exactly the same kind as existed in England as well as on the continent, 'khe similarities between the situation in Sweden and Denmark, where the oldest unit of assessment, the bol, was probably identical with a ])loughland as norm for the ploughtax. are striking. hAen if the expressions “ploughland” and “ploughtax” do not occur in the language of Swedish mediaeval administration, the unit behind the oldest Swedish assessments, the (dtun(/ and the marklund, was no doubt the ploughland, and the 100-hides-counting. which here led to the numeral of hundra,
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