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152 6-såldings to 100 2/3 marks, the total taxation for the bishopric being 834 marks. The remainder of Eadsiva-thing, consisting of three provinces, each with the assumed assessment at 1.600 6-såldings, corresponded to the bishopric of liamar. Of the total amount of Vienne-tithe, imposed upon the bishopric, 259 marks, 213 marks has been classified as taxation of tithes and 46 marks as landskyld fromca 409 6-såldings. Summed up the total number of 6-såldings in the four lawunions of Norway would be the following: Corresponds to number of hunds Number of 6-såldings Frosta-thing The ledung Härjedalen Jämtland . 13.200 560 18 640 14.400 Gula-thing The ledung 18 14.400 Borgar-thing Bohuslän . Vingulmark Vestfold . . 4.800 4.800 4.800 14.400 18 Eidsiva-thing Romerike Gudbrandsdalen Hadafylke . ... Heinafylke . . .. 3.200 1.600 1.600 1.600 8.000 10 51.200 64 These figures indicate, that the Norwegian acreage would once have been assessed at 51.200 6-såldings, corresponding to 2/3 of the figure, which the author has assumed as being the acreage of Mediaeval Sweden, 76.800 attungs or 96 hunds. In 1968 a Norwegian historian, J. Sandnes, published researchfindings, which estimated the number of farms existing in Norway in the High Middle Ages at about 1340. This research represents a thorough country-wide investigation of the local conditions in larger and smaller districts, arriving at a total figure

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