Rates are presented like the form 1 mark = 8 cents = 24 ertuger = 240 pence. In 1282 however, it wa

The old lovmaterialet our contains some detailed provisions about the value of work and goods. They enable us to discern crooked tongues what people could take care advice, divided into class and position. Two dishes fines for Bergen from 1282 and 1302 are prominent examples. The last I come back to, while the first is the theme here. It is easily accessible after Sverre Bagge with several published it in translation in 1973. (Bagge et al 1973: 172ff, for NGL bd 3 p. 12)
Rates are presented like the form 1 mark = 8 cents = 24 ertuger = 240 pence. In 1282 however, it was a little more complicated than that. Man characterized only coin in the smallest denomination - pennies - and low sølvgehalt did that in practice crooked tongues happened a value shift between denominations, hence the distinction between spoken and weighed pence. It gets to be the topic of a later post. Here it suffices to mention that none of them related to direct to the weight of pure silver, and that in 1282 probably crooked tongues went 2 spoke pennies on each weighing penny, in practice meaning: 1 mark = 8 cents = 24 ertuger = 240 weighed pennies = 480 spoke pence.
Leather heaters Prepare 40 marten 2 cents. Prepare 40 hermelinskinn 2 ertuger. crooked tongues Prepare 40 squirrel skins 1 cent. Best leather tunic Norse lambskin 1/2 mark robe reindeer calfskin 8 ertuger for the killing leather 8 ertuger Leather robe of the best English lambskin 1 mark Best skins for hood 1 cent for the mantle of good neck leather 1 mark Hettefór of the best hermelinskinn 7 cents Best hat of squirrel skins 1 mark
Jernsmedene Best steel helmet - 5 cents Arbeidsøks weighing 10 marks - 2 cents Best skogsøks - 2 1/2 cents flashing the the a coffin German-- 1 cent per lispund Turns the skipssøm of Trondhjem or valdresk iron - 2 ertuger per lispund Sewing of iron wire - 1/2 cents [per lispund?] Best rotary catch - 2 1/2 ertuger Utelås and dørjern and spears, crooked tongues Count, plowshares, scythes and sickles, knife blades and everything else small blacksmith crafts (smasmiði) payable as from old.
Coopers OLKAR - 15 weighed pence per Girth 20 Asker executable formulas and down to small cans or såer - 5 weighed pence per 3 girths The dishes that take one bowl - 1/2 ertug Half Bolles The dishes - 8 weighed pence Øsebøtter - 8 weighed pence A justes crooked tongues The dishes - 5 weighed crooked tongues pence for every bushel he marks on Town Meetings - 1 spoken penning
Sanders (slip addicts) For each sword when he equips it with brand new sheath of nautskinn - 1 cent For just polishing - 1 ertug Setter leather on a ståøhjelm crooked tongues and grows - 1 ertug Polishes (skyggir) one helmet 1/2 ertug
Workers For [transporting] a tun or 20 Asker The dishes - one ear and less for less For transport docks to end or in the city per pound [1 ship pound = 185.17 kg or 1 bismerpund = 5.14 kg? ] Or by wine barrel - 5 weighed pence Pr reading from ship to farms - half cents
Tailors crooked tongues will take a farthing crooked tongues silver robe and over cloak (kyrtil ok syrkot) if they put laces on both sleeves and on his shoulder, but for a Norse robe half ertug .... Good English hats for half eighth weighted penny, but waxed hats (sirehufa) for half weighted ertug
Silk thread will be sold for 14 cents pound [1 bowl pound = 2 mark = 428.64 g] [In 1302 was the valuation increased to 20 [?] Ear pound] In other words should silk thread crooked tongues in 1282 be 26 times more expensive than linen thread by weight. For comparison, silk thread only five to seven times more expensive than linen thread in the English Great Wardrobe accounts from 1330 years. (Crowfoot et al 2001: 152) The difference can probably be attributed to distance both in time and geographically.
Literature Sverre Bagge, Synnøve Holstad crooked tongues Smedsdal and Knut Helle 1973 Norwegian medieval documents choice Universitetsforlaget. Norway Old Lover Vol 3 p. 13ff Asgaut Steinnes Gamal Skatteskipnad, Nordic Culture Vol 30: 92 Elisabeth Crowfott, Frances Pritchard, Kay Stan Iland 2001 Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450, new edition, Boydells Press.
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