315 carried out in practice, as is shown by the amounts of taxation in the Viennetithelist: the scale of taxations ijjoes from 28 to () (ires, reflectiiii^ territories of 2 1/3 tolfts and 1/2 tolft respectively. Between these extremes there are amounts of 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 10, 18, 20, 22 and 24 öres. the main taxations beini,' those of 12 and 24 (ires, indicatinj; a taxation, the former amount of one tolft or 40 marklands of soil and 30 mantals to the ledung, the latter two such tolfls. About one third of the total of 171 churches in the folklands were taxed to the amounts of 12 or 24 öres, which figures indicate that those parishes were wholly identical with one or two old tolfts. Obviously topographical reasons such as the distance from one village to the place where the church was Iniilt and the practicability of the roads in between together with the availability by sea were factors that contributed to give the definite form to the territory, which came to he a parish. 'I'he Viennelithelist shows that the subdivision of the folklands in units for administration about 1300 did not coincide with the original: the list mentions 12 provinces in 4'iundaland, 8 in Attundaland and. as emphazised above. 5 in Fjädrundaland. Obviously certain of the old bunds before that time had been split up info smaller units, of which some later on came to function as iiuh'pendent administrative units, whereas in other cases parts of original bunds have come to he incorporated with other hunds, bordering on them. Starting from the medium values of a bund, 7 j)arishes with a total taxation of 120 öres, the present writer has fried to reconstruct what might have been the oldest subdivision: the 23 provinces are put together into 9 blocks (^f bunds with the number values of 120. 240. 300 and 480 (ires of taxation, corresponding roughly to 7. 14. 21 and 28 churches. The central hund. ^’aksala. where the original site of the Svea-trihe. Old Uppsala, was situated, was at tlu' beginning of the 14th century divided info two districts, including the original territ(^ries of the Svea-tribes. 'I'he figures of assessment of the folklands into marklands, which have been reconstructed with the help of the Viennetithematerial, is supported by another source, the iiumher of collected pennies to St Petrus in .Sweden, figures of which are known for all Swedish bishoprics in series for the years 1319—50 by the
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