Fjerding

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Fjerding was a Scandinavian volume measure. It was the quarter ton in Danish. The measure was also used in Sweden and Finland . There are slight differences.

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Tønne = 4 Kvarter ( Fjerdinger ) = 8 Skjepper = 16 Settinger = 32 Fjerdingkar = 64 Åttinger = 144 Potter = 576 Peler = 138.96 liters

literature

  • Helge Frøyset: Bygdebok for Eidsberg and Mysen. Volume 1, Eidsberg og Mysen Historielag, 1959, p. 12.
  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 6. Leipzig 1906, p. 644.
  • Jan W. Krohn-Holm: Hedrum bygdebok: Gårder and slekter i Hedrum so. Hedrum Kommune, 1978, p. 13, ISBN 978-82990-513-09 .
  • Lorens Berg: Brunlanes: Inntil 1830-50. Gunnar Christie Wasberg, 1979, p. 8.