130 taxation-result. The present writer has found that the mantal-figures of the of Södermanland and Närke indicate that the mantal-taxation of provinces these provinces had been based upon the norm of 6 öres-lands to the mantal, while statistics for the rest of Svealand show taxation according to the normof 8 öres-lands to the mantal. The present writer has also looked at the mantal-taxation of the original Danish provinces, which came to be included in Sweden in the 17th century, ie Skåne, Blekinge, Halland and Bohuslän. According to estimations, made by the present writer in his papers of 1976 and 1979, these provinces should have been assessed at totally 21,360 ottings, each counting 4 öres-lands, while the figure of mantal-taxation of those provinces amounts to 13,844.5. If the mantal-taxation was based on an assessment at 6 öres-lands to the mantal this would mathematically have resulted in a taxation at 14,240 mantals. The figures make it obvious that this has been the case. In a special research the present writer has analyzed in detail the elements of the leding-organization of Skåne, which was created ca 950—ca 1000, ie about a hundred years before the churches of Skåne were built and the parish-svstem of the province was established. To meet the needs of the leding-fleet Skåne was subdivided into 22 härads, each counting 480 ottings, giving a total number of 10,560 ottings for the whole of the province. Each otting represented a man in the fleet, and 3 men a rotation group on each one oar, which was called a havne. Every härad was subdivided into 16 districts of 10 havnes and 30 ottings, each district representing the teamof one ship of 30 oars. 4 of the 16 teams of the härad formed a group of 120 men who w'ere responsible for the 30 oars of one ship every fourth time ledung obligations were requested by the king. Later, when the parish-system of Skåne was fully established, each of the 352 districts of 30 ottings came in principle to be the basic territory for the parish of the province. When in 1658 Skåne came to be a Sw'edish province it counted 23 härads as one härad, Göinge, had been divided into two, each counting 480 ottings. This would make the total sumof ottings 11,040, mathematically corresponding to 7360 mantals of 6 öres-lands. Mantal-statistics show that Skåne after having been included as a part of Sweden was assessed at 7137.2 mantals, a figure giving strong support to the hypothesis set forth by the present writer. In this paper the present writer has also more closely investigated a hypothesis of his already advanced in the paper of 1979. It is the old discussion about what time Sweden gained access to the waters of Kattegatt, either in 1658 through the peace-treaty with Denmark—which is the common opinion—or in the middle of the 13th century—as G. Olsson, the Swedish historian, believes,
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