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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Lars Ivar
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-26T09:01:40Z
dc.date.available2018-06-26T09:01:40Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-20
dc.description.abstractThis​​​ article focuses upon the delimitation between the separate farm units and the collectively exploited common lands (‘allmenninger’) in Southeastern​​​ Norway during Medieval times. In these commons, various kind of resources – like pastures, woodland and fisheries – were accessible for exploitation by a majority of farmers in the settlement community, but subject to more restrictions than the resources of the ‘outlying fields’ pertaining to the separate farms. While the majority of the farmers within the community preferred that the extension of the commons should be preserved for their convenience, two groups of farmers might appropriate parts of the original common land area: those cultivating farms bordering to the common area, and who might extend their separate farmland successively into the previous commonly held area, and landless people who wanted to establish new farms (‘clearances’) within the common land. The legislation was also double and ambiguous. On the one hand it stated that ‘the commons [should] stay in the way they have been before’. On the other hand it was declared that a farmer establishing a farm as a new clearing in the commons should become the King’s tenant and thus come under his protection. The processes behind the institutionalizing of boundaries between the commons and private farm properties are highlighted through an analysis of settlement development in two municipalities/parishes in Southeastern Norway.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Danish Journal of Archaeology on 20/12/2017, available online: <a href=http://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1323992> http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/21662282.2017.1323992. </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationHansen, L.I. (2017). How to define borders between private and common land in Norway?. Danish Journal of Archaeology. 6(2), 93-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2017.1323992en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1538581
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/21662282.2017.1323992
dc.identifier.issn2166-2282
dc.identifier.issn2166-2290
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/12998
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_US
dc.relation.journalDanish Journal of Archaeology
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectCommon landsen_US
dc.subjectfarm boundariesen_US
dc.subjectlegislationen_US
dc.subjectpeasant communityen_US
dc.subjectsettlement communityen_US
dc.subjectsettlement developmenten_US
dc.subjectRomerike regionen_US
dc.subjectsoutheastern Norwayen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070::Middelalderhistorie: 081en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070::History of the Middle Ages: 081en_US
dc.titleHow to define borders between private and common land in Norway?en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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