220 figure recorded in Domesday Book of ca 1086 at 68.430 ploughlands (hides, carucates and sulungs). The corresponding figures of assessment, reconstructed for the three Scandinavian countries, indicate that those figures had been arrived at by some joint assessment of Scandinavian acreage as a whole and that such an assessment would have been carried out in a very systematical and methodical way by assessing the villages at a certain number of ploughlands and attungs in Sweden and bols and ottings in Denmark. The fact that no assessment of villages in terms of ploughlands but only in that of the smaller family holding of the 6-sålding was represented in the Norwegian assessment terminology, indicates that the acreage of the average Norwegian village was too limited to be measured in terms of the ploughland. The reconstruction of the assessment of Scandinavian acreage has been possible by the fact that the systems of assessment of acreage were combined with the monetary systems of the three countries. The monetary system of Denmark, founded on the mark of 240 pennies, was probably brought about during the reign of Knut the Great at which time the monetary system of Norway was also created, based on the same monetary unit as that of Denmark, the mark of 240 pennies. The earliest Swedish coins were struck by Olof Skötkonung in about the year 1000, according to a system of 96 pennies to the mark, a system later changed by his son and successor Anund Jakob (ca 1022—50) into one of 192 pennies to the mark. No suppositions are made by Swedish or Norwegian research as to the time when the grain of corn was linked to the money systems in these countries but according to Danish research it has been assumed that this evaluation would have been in existence by about 1100, one Danish skäppa of corn being estimated as the equivalent of 1 penny. The present writer has presumed that a similar evaluation of corn grain must have been brought about in Norway and Sweden during the 11th century, the unit of corn measure in Norway being that of one såld, valued at 20 silver pennies, and in Sweden that of the spann, put at the value of 8 pennies. A difference in volume accounts for the difference in silver value between the skäppa, the såld and the spann; thus, the silver value of the amount of corn that could be sown each year in one otting, one attung and one 6-sålding was the same — namely, half a mark or 4 öre. At the beginning of the 12th century it was only in Denmark that the peasants let 1/3 of the acreage lie fallow reducing the value of the sown corn to 2 2/3 silver öre. The author considers it essential to establish the money value of the corn annually sown in the units of acreage, because this value represented
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