> DavidLJoh wrote in message > <20001231010218.11876.00000665@ng-cd1.aol.com>... > >Han kjøpte 10 engelsk til sjøleie 1696. > > Something must be missing here! > > It says "He bought 10 English for self-ownership 1696" as far as I can > make out. Self-ownership is a term in Norwegian used in connection with > such things as appartments where you can self-own or group-own in a > "borettslag". In both cases, you have posession of the appartment, but > in the latter, you don't have complete privelages to do as you like with > it. > > Marianne No, Marianne; "engelsk" was also on old land measurement used in past times. I have encountered this measurement in Bygdebokers covering parts of Vest-Agder. Ellen