128 As the present writer has indicated in his paper of 1974, the number of attungs in Sweden, 76 800, was most certainly equally divided between the Göta and the Svea territories of the country, 38 400 attungs in each part. In spite of this there existed in Sweden a clearly distinguishable difference in the administrative systems of the two parts, the Götalands being subdivided into 80 härads of 480 attungs and the Svealands into 48 hunds of 800 attungs. The 80 härads of the Götalands were formed according to the norms of the härads of Denmark, counted as 480 ottings each as being arithmetic components of the Danish fleet-organization, the leding. Originally Denmark had been subdivided into 240 härads, 120 covering Jutland and 120 the rest of the country, at that time including also parts of Sweden and Norway of today. The 48 hunds of the Svealands represented districts of 100 holdings of the same size as the bols of Denmark with every hund counting 800 attungs. Of the 48 hunds 22 represented the so called —identical with the actual landscapes of Uppland and Gästrikland —the original territories of the Svea tribe—which at that time were divided into three districts: Tiuridaland, the land of 10 hunds, Attundaland, the land of 8 hunds, and Fjädrundaland, the land of 4 hunds. It is a highly interesting fact that the three Folklands present themselves by their names with their assessed number of hunds, bols and attungs, 10, 1000 and 8000 respectively in Tiundaland, 8,800 and 6400 in Attundaland and 4,400 and 3200 in Fjädrundaland. That the said territorial relations between the Folklands, 10/22, 8/22 and 4/ 22 of the whole, were still upheld in 1314, when the Holy See put a tax upon the parish-priests of Sweden —the so called Vienne-tithe—can be gathered bv the fact that the number of parishes as well as the amounts of tax, put upon the priests, were divided between the Folklands in the same shares as indicate their names, ie 10/22, 8/22 and 4/22. The same correspondance can also be observed in the sums of Peter’s pences which were paid by the inhabitants of the Folklands during the period of 1333— 1350. In his paper of 1974 the present writer pointed at the obvious similarities that could be observed in the number of attungs estimated in the island of Gotland and the number of mantals at which the island was assessed according to the stipulations of land-taxation, laid down in a royal decree of 1568. The present writer has now subjected the other landscapes of Sweden to a close research in order to pursue this observation, the purpose of the actual paper being in fact to establish whether a similar correspondance between the two systems of taxation—the old attung assessment of the Viking Age and the assessment into mantals of 1568—could be traced also in other parts of the country. As mentioned above, the average attung of Sweden was characterized bv the fact that the corn-grain which could be sown on its acreage every year was supposed to have had a money-value of 4 öres silver. So the attung in the terms
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