314 The lentil of the hund would thus have had an assessment of 40 marklands and a personal basis of 30 men, who for the ledung were probably subdivided into 4 district-hamnors of 9 men and 12 rowing-hamnors of 3 men. Of the 9 men in the district-hamna 3 had probably to row one oar of the ship, which was put up by the treding where they lived, and the other 0 men had to row two oars of the ships put up by the remaining two tredings. Because of this organization of the crews with the men of the hund divided in this way on the three ships of the territory, the ledungtermhuiuldri, originally the ward-team of one ship and consisting of 120 men. got a double-meaning: the word could indicate both the district of the 120 men as well as the whole hund. The word hund(tri, an elliptical expression for the districts of 120 or 300 men and based on the long hundred of six scores. later displaced the older term hiind for the assessment of soil, based on the hundred of five scores. The present writer assumes that this was the administrative situation in the folklands at the time of creating the parish system about 1100. There can be little doubt about the fact that the subdivision for the churches was based on the existing subdivision of the hund into tenths. Traces of the old ledung-organization are still found in the terms of the I'ppland law. which are used to indicate the two kinds of churches: the hundderis kirkia, which should have a vicarage of 1 markland. and the tolfptae kirkin, having a vicarage of only half that size. Considering the size of the vicarage it has been assumed that the latter church had as its district an area roughly corresponding tt) a tenth of the hund —that would be the tolft —while the former in principle should have had two tolfts or 80 marklands as its territorial basis. The present writer assumes that the term hunddcris kirkid Ls derived from the situation during the earliest period of churchbuilding, when at first three churches were built in a hund. one for each treding. Later on the subdivision of the hund into [)arishes was differentiated by the creation of four more churches, each of them for a district of in principle one tolft, the territory of the hundareschurches then being reduced from 3 1/3 tolfts to 2 tolfts. 'fhe fundamental sid^division of the himd in 3 hundares-churdies of exactly 2 tolfts and 4 tolft-chiirches could not have been
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