Foering

Föring was a Danish trading weight on the island of Iceland .

• 1 Föring = 10 pounds (Danish) = 4.9931 kilograms , according to another source = 4994 grams
• 1 Föring / tour = 5 fish = 10 pounds (Danish)
• 8 Föring = 1 bed = 40 fish = 5 Liespfund (Danish)

literature

• Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 6. Leipzig 1906, p. 764.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 1, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 501.
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 95.
3. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke , Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 14, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1778, p. 438.