Sweden 1268 –1382 79Women 79Men Oxen Number of people Number of animals Cows Sheep Swine 6 40 84 68 38 29 19 18 Scania and Denmark 1283 –1353 15Women 12Men Oxen Number of people Number of animals Cows Sheep Swine 0 12 15 14 0 0 0 0 35 SDHK1573. 36 Source: Myrdal 2008, pp. 66–67. – Clerics and religious institutions are excluded among the recipients. table3: Recipients of livestock.36 testaments as a source for everyday life to the poor. For instance, in 1292 a nobleman gave one cow from every farm he owned to poor people.35 Clerics in the countryside bequeathed livestock to other priests in nearby parishes, and to their own relatives, but livestock was not a gift transferred among the higher nobility. They gave more valuable things to each other. Livestock: gifts from men and women. Men gave and received oxen, but women cows. Women also received more sheep, but the few swine were evenly distributed. Testaments from Denmark are fewer but show the same pattern: women received cows, men oxen. The Norwegian testaments are too few for any meaningful quantification, and the same is true of small animals in Denmark. Horses are excluded from table 3below, but if workhorses had been included we would see the same pattern as for oxen: In Sweden five workhorses were given to women, and thirteen to men; in Denmark none to women and five to men. 372
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