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As in the case of the Danes the Norwegians' earliest standards of measure can be derived from their ship burials. The was built ca. 700 AD and differs from the Danish boats less than it does from the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune ships which all date from ca. 800 AD. Thwarts are typically spaced about 3 feet apart.〔(... ) rast〕 In 1541, an ''alen'' in Denmark and Norway was defined by law to be the Sjælland ''alen''. Subsequently, the ''alen'' was defined by law as 2 Rhine feet from 1683. From 1824, the basic unit was defined as a ''fot'' being derived from astronomy as the length of a one-second pendulum times 12/38 at a latitude of 45°. The metric system was introduced in 1887. == Length == * ''skrupel'' – scruple, 1/12 ''linje'' or approx. 0.18 mm. * ''linje'' – line, 1/12 ''tomme'' or approx. 2.18 mm * ''tomme'' – thumb (inch), 1/12 ''fot'', approx. 26.1 mm. This unit was commonly used for measuring timber until the 1970s. Nowadays, the word refers invariably to the English inch, 25.4 mm. * ''kvarter'' – quarter, 1/4 ''alen''. * ''fot'' – foot, 1/2 ''alen''. From 1824, 313.74 mm. * ''alen'' – forearm or ell, 627.48 mm from 1824, 627.5 mm from 1683, 632.6 mm from 1541. Before that, local variants. * ''favn'' – fathom (pl. ''favner''), 3 ''alen'', 1.882 m. * ''stang'' – rod, 5 ''alen'' or 3.1374 m * ''lås'' – 15 ''favner'', 28.2 m * ''fjerdingsvei'' – quarter mile, alt. ''fjerding'', 1/4 ''mil'', i.e. 2.82 km. * ''mil'' or ''landmil'' – Norwegian mile, spelled ''miil'' prior to 1862, 18,000 ''alen'' (36,000 feet, 7.018 miles or 11.295 km). Before 1683, a ''mil'' was defined as 17600 ''alen'' or 11.13 km. Another old land-mile, 11.824 km. The unit survives to this day, but in a metric 10 km adaptation * ''rast'' –lit. "rest", the old name of the ''mil''. A suitable distance between rests when walking. Believed to be approx. 9 km before 1541. * ''Kaffekok'', a similar term to ''rast'' used in the north by the indigenous Sami people. * ''steinkast'' – stone's throw, perhaps 25 ''favner'', used to this day as a very approximate measure of a short distance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norwegian units of measurement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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