Setting (unit)

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Setting was a Danish measure of volume.

1 Setting = 11/2 Notting = 2 Fjerdingkar = 4 Åttinger = 9 Potter = 8.71 liters

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.
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.