129 of monev-definition was identical with a 4 öres-land or a half mark-land. In the Royal decree of 1568 it was stipulated that a full mantal, ie a full family holding, should have an assessment of acreage at 5 —8 öres-lands. Mantal-statistics show that in 1568 the average mantal in the landscapes of Götaland was counted as a holding of about 6 öres-lands, identical with 1 1/2 attung. With this normapplied the old number of attungs in Götaland, 38,400 a 4 öres-lands, should have corresponded mathematically to 25.600 mantals of 6öres-lands. As in 1568 the number of mantals taxed in the landscapes of Götaland in fact amounted to 26,131.4, it seems evident that the taxation into mantals of the Götalands was based on a mantal of 6 öres-lands. In the Svealands on the other hand the norms of taxation into mantals were somewhat different. As the stipulations of the law of Uppland of 1296 show there existed already at that time a full family holding which in the lawis called the markland, identical with a double attung, counting 8 öres-lands. According to the law, this holding represented the basic territorial element of the fleet-organization of the folklands, the ledung. Originally the attung had been the basic holding of the ledung in the folklands but as materials available show the markland was substituted for the attung in this capacity at the beginning of the 13th century, the hund being in consequence counted as 400 marklands instead of 800 attungs. The present writer has come to the conclusion that out of the 400 marklands of the hund 360 represented the crew of men rowing ships of 40 oars in a system of rotation while the revenue of 40 marklands were put at the disposition of the men in charge of the ships. The law of Uppland mentions the termof ”mantal”, here obviously indicating the number of rowing men of the ledung-crew with their holdings of markland. According to the calculations of the present writer the total number of mantals of the ledung-fleet with their holdings in the folklands was (22 x 360) 7920 with (10x360) 3600 in Tiundaland, (8x360) 2880 in Attundaland and (4x360) 1440 in Pjädrundaland. When counting together the mantals of the taxation in 1568 you find that the figures of the folklands are 3751.7, 2656.6 and 1465.6 respectively, summed up 7884.9. Thus it seems evident, that the mantals of 1568 were based on those originally counted for the ledung-fleet in the way the present writer has assumed. Consequently the mantals here were counted as holdings of 8 öreslands. When it comes to the norms of mantal-taxation, applied in the other provinces of Svealand, the first question that arises is if the norms were the same as in the folklands, i e based upon the holding of 8 öres-lands to the mantal. If this had been the case, the whole of Svealand should have been taxed at 19,200 mantals of 8-öres-land instead of 38,400 attungs of 4 öres-lands. As in fact the mantal-statistics show the figure of 21,907.5 mantals for the total territories of Svealand, there must be some other explanations as to this
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