Barrel of land
A barrel of land (Danish: tønde land,[1] Norwegian: tønneland,[2] Swedish: tunnland,[3] Finnish: tynnyrinala) is a Scandinavian unit of area. The word may originate from the area of fields one could seed with a barrel of grain seeds.[1] The acre is the equivalent anglosaxon unit. Because the barrel sizes varied by country, the area unit does too. One barrel can be approximated as half a hectare.
Per country
Denmark
In Denmark the tønde was used as an official area unit until the introduction of the metric system in 1907.[1] A tønde was divided in 8 skæpper.[4]
Norway
A tønneland was divided in 4 mål. Nowadays a mål corresponds to 1,000 square meters in everyday speech.
Sweden
The unit was officially surveyed and standardized in the 1630s. One tunnland was divided in 56 kannland, 32 kappland, 6 skäppland or 2 lopsland.[5]
Finland
In Finland the unit was officially defined in 1633. One tynnyrinala corresponded to 32 kapanala or 2 panninala.
In modern units
- Danish tønde land: 5,516.2 square metres (1.3631 acres)
- Norwegian tønneland: 3,939 square metres (0.973 acres)
- Swedish tunnland: 4,937.6 square metres (1.2201 acres)
- Finnish tynnyrinala: 4,936.5 square metres (1.2198 acres)
See also
- Norwegian units of measurement
- Danish units of measurement
- Swedish units of measurement
- Finnish units of measurement
- Obsolete Finnish units of measurement
References
- 1 2 3 "tønde". Gyldendal - Den Store Danske.
- ↑ "tønne – arealenhet". Store Norske Leksikon.
- ↑ "tunnland". Nationalencyklopedin AB.
- ↑ Rejnholdt Kristensen, Evald (1920). Danmark Og Det Danske Folk. A.H. Anderson. p. 471.
- ↑ "kappland". Nationalencyklopedin AB.