SUMMARY In a paper, “Viennetionde och hundaresindelning”, published in 1974, the author advanced the theory that the subdivision of the Swedish provinces into territorial districts, called luiiuldri (hundare) in the mediaeval laws of the Svea parts of the country and haerdö (härad) in the Göta parts, was the result of a centuriation in matter and form of the same kind as the English 100-hides, a conception that according to research had connection with the hundred of “100/120 ploughlands”, existing in England during the 10th century. Moreover the present writer expressed the opinion that the hiinddri, originalh’ equivalent to the older conception hand, indicated an assessment of acreage at 100 ploughlands while the hderah presumahly was assessed at 00 ploughlands. According to the mediaeval laws and the earliest documents the oldest unit of assessment in Sweden was the dttiing, which in the Latin documents is referred to as octoiidrius, a definition that has led to the conclusion that the attung would he a 1/8 function of a ploughland. The attung is hy historical research regarded as the average possession of a mediaeval Swedish peasant family, a holding that was defined hy the value of corn-grain, which every year had to be sown on its acreage; the quantity of seed is supposed to have been 12 spanns corresponding to the value of half a Swedish silver mark. The author has put forward the hypothesis, that the whole acreage of Sweden had once been subjected to an assessment in order to create a basis for taxation and for the construction of the ledung, a fleet that was organized in the Svea parts of the countrj'. By means of an analysis of the amounts of the so called Vienne-tithe —a tax to the Holy See, which according to a de-
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