Tiundaland

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Tiundaland

Tiundaland is a historic region, Folkland
Folkland

The Folklands are the name for the original Sweden provinces of Tiundaland, Attundaland, Fj?rdhundraland, and Roden which in the 1296 united to form the modern province of Uppland....
, and since 1296 part of the modern province of Uppland

Uppland

Uppland is a historical Provinces of Sweden or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders S?dermanland, V?stmanland and G?strikland....
. It originally meant the land of the ten hundred
Hundred (division)

A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, Denmark, South Australia, some parts of the USA, Germany , Sweden, Finland and Norway, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions....
s and referred to its duty of providing 1000 men and 40 ships for the Swedish king's leidang

Leidang

The institution known as lei?angr , leidang , leding, , ledung , expeditio or sometimes lething , was a public levy of free farmers typical for medieval Scandinavians....
.

A list from 1314 defines Tiundaland as Bälinge Hundred, Gästrikland

Gästrikland

, is a historical Provinces of Sweden or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden. It borders Uppland, V?stmanland, Dalarna, H?lsingland and the Gulf of Bothnia....
, Håbo Hundred, Hagunda Hundred, Norunda Hundred, Närding Hundred, Oland Hundred, Rasbo Hundred, Ulleråker Hundred

Ulleråker Hundred

Uller?ker Hundred, or Uller?kers h?rad, was a Hundreds of Sweden of Uppland and Uppsala County in Sweden.The area of the hundred stretches from the border of Hagunda hundred in the south-west to the Rivers Jumkils?n and Fyris in the northwest and Lake Ekoln in the south-east....
and Vaksala Hundred.

During the Viking Age

Viking Age

Viking Age is the term for the period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, spanning the eighth to eleventh centuries....
it probably extended from the coast of the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
by Norrtälje

Norrtälje

Norrt?lje is a Urban areas in Sweden in the Sweden traditional provinces of Sweden of Uppland and the seat of Norrt?lje Municipality, Stockholm County....
to the bay which today is the lake Mälaren

Mälaren

Lake M?laren is the third-largest lake in Sweden, after Lakes V?nern and V?ttern. Its area is 1,140 km? and its greatest depth is 64 m. The lake drains, from southwest to northeast, into the Baltic Sea through S?dert?lje kanal, Hammarbyslussen, Karl Johanslussen and Norrstr?m....
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Uppland

Leidang

Gästrikland

Ulleråker Hundred

Viking Age

Baltic Sea

Norrtälje

Mälaren

Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was two-time elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing....
in the Heimskringla

Heimskringla

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson ca....
it was the location of Uppsala

Gamla Uppsala

Gamla Uppsala is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 16,231 inhabitants in 1991.As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre....
and the Thing of all Swedes

Thing of all Swedes

The Thing of all Swedes was the Thing which was held from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages, at the end of February or early March at Gamla Uppsala, Sweden....
, where every year there were great blót

Blot

A blot can refer to several different things.*In biology, a Blot is a method of transferring proteins, DNA, RNA or a protein onto a carrier....
s which were attended by many kings. He relates that Tiundaland was the richest and most fertile region of Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
where was the seat of the Swedish kings at Uppsala

Gamla Uppsala

Uppsala öd

Uppsala ?d, Old Norse: Uppsala au?r or Uppsala ??r was the name given to the collection of estates which was the property of the Swedish Crown in medieval Sweden....
had taken its name. All the Swedish lawspeaker

Lawspeaker

The third portion of Svithjod proper is called Tiundaland; the fourth Attundaland
Attundaland

Attundaland was the name given to the southeastern part of the present day province of Uppland, north of Stockholm. Its name refers to its role of providing 800 men and 32 ships for the leidang of the Swedish kings at Uppsala....
; the fifth Sialand (Roslagen
Roslagen

Roslagen is the name of the coastal areas of Uppland province in Sweden, which also constitutes the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago....
), and what belongs to it lies eastward along the coast. Tiundaland is the best and most inhabited part of Svithjod, under which the other kingdoms stand. There Upsala is situated, the seat of the king and archbishop; and from it Upsala-audr (Uppsala öd
Uppsala öd

Uppsala ?d, Old Norse: Uppsala au?r or Uppsala ??r was the name given to the collection of estates which was the property of the Swedish Crown in medieval Sweden....
), or the domain of the Swedish kings, takes its name. Each of these divisions of the country has its Lag-thing, and Its own laws in many parts. Over each is a lagman
Lagman

Lagman can refer to several different things*lawspeaker*Lamian, alternately laghman, a spicy Central Asia noodle soup...
[ lawspeaker

Lawspeaker

A lawspeaker is a unique Scandinavia legal office. It has its basis in a common Germanic oral tradition, where wise men were asked to recite the law, but it was only in Scandinavia that the function evolved into an office....
], who rules principally in affairs of the bonde
Bonde

Bonde is a Swedish noble family.Prominent members include* Karl Knutsson Bonde , King Charles VIII of Sweden* Gustaf Bonde , Swedish statesman...
s [ yeomen ]: for that becomes law which he, by his speech, determines them to make law: and if king, earl, or bishop goes through the country, and holds a Thing with the bondes, the lagmen [law speakers] reply on account of the bondes, and they all follow their lagmen; so that even the most powerful men scarcely dare to come to their Al-thing without regarding the bondes' and lagmen's law. And in all matters in which the laws differ from each other, Upsala-law is the directing law; and the other lagmen are under the lagman who dwells in Tiundaland.

Tiundaland

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