309 lo 10. tS ;m(l 4 Inmdred ploughlands. ('.onse(|uently il can be assinned Ihal Upjiland wilh (liislrikland was assessed al 22 hunds or 2.200 iiloughlands. .\ccording lo the mediaeval laws and the earliest docuinenis the oldest unit of assessinent in Sweden was the (tttiuui. which in the Lalin documenis is referred to as octoiitiriiis, a definition that has led to the conclusion that the attung could be 1/8-function of a ploughland. If this was the case, the 2.200 ploughlands in the Ihrei' folklands of Svitjod would have represented an assessment of 17.000 atiungs. 44ie subdivision in altungs was later replaced by another unit of assessment, the markland. nuirchd Icrrr, which as I'". Dovring has shown was eipial to two altungs. 'Fhe markland as a unit of assessment can best be observed in the law of Vppland, where it is staled lhal the markland should lie norm for A’aluationof the acreage in the village, sulidividing it into öresland. (ulugland and penningland in relation to the Swedish monetary system, the mark being 8 (ires, 24 ortugs and 192 pennings. The markland shoidd also be the basis for taxpaying. If the markland in fact was nothing but a double-attung, the total assessment of the folklands, expressed in marklands, should have been 8.800: 4.000 in riundaland. 3.200 in .\ltundaland and 1.000 in Fjädrnndaland. 4'he markland as unil of assessment has been sidiject to much discussion by Swedish researchers. It has been assumed (i. Ilafsinim by that the unil probably derives its name from the fact that the corn-grain, which had to be sown every year on the acreage of 1 markland. had an average value of 1 mark silver, an amount corres])onding to the value (^f 24 .s-pu/m.v of corn-grain, 'fbe spann, a measure of about 50 liters, bad the average value of 8 pennings or 1 (irtug and the area, sown with 1 spann, was called 1 (irtugland as well as the 3-spannarea. eipial to 3 (iriuglands, was calh'd 1 (iresland. 8 of them making 1 markland. 'riuis the mediaeval monetary system of Sweden was put in direct relation to the value of the corn-grain, expressed in the measure S])ann. 4'he spann was the basic unil in a system for the measurement of seed, used in Sweden during the .Middle Ages, in which the next measure was the ton of 0 spanns and the biggest unil tbe läst
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