Subtitle

Middle age

Volume

2

Author(s)

Ragnhild Ormøy

Year

1992

Publisher

Brøttum historielag Ringsaker historielag Veldre historielag

ISBN

8299175658, 8299175623

Pages

232

Part of the work

Ringsakboka

Source

BIIBSYS

The author is historian Ragnhild Ormøy, who writes about the period from 1000 to 1660.
Visual artist Olav Bjørgum has created 25 graphic illustrations.
Photographer Jan Haug has been the picture editor and designed the book.


I. From the Viking Age to the Middle Ages	Side
Ringsakbygda comes to the fore	9
At the center of national political events	9
Why did Ringsaker become a meeting place for kings?	12


II. The Middle Ages ca. 1000-1530
1. A society in transition	17
Villages and districts	19
The sources	21
The village takes shape	23
Old village teams	23
Order of things	26
Matters at the rural parliament	29
Lagting	29
Defense scheme	30
New laws to protect the land	32
Mjøskastellet	33

New forms of governance	34
Yearmen, countrymen and earls	34
Gypsies	35
Team members	37
Farmers	37

2. Christianity and church	38
The first Christian era	38
Church order	40
Ringsaker parish	41
Ringsaker church	42
The church and parish at Fylkeshaug in Veldrebygda	45
Other churches and parishes in the village	46
The church at Brøttum	46
Church and churchyard at Rør	48

Prester	50
Work tasks	50
Income to priest and church	50
Priests in Ringsaker	51
Provost and bishop	53

3. Old farms and new settlements	54
Farming and use	54
Sources for settlement history	55
Farm name	55
More recent sources	55
Property conditions	56
Location and size	56
Guards in Veldre	56
Cleanup and growth	60
Usage sharing	62
The farms in the south of Ringsaker	64
Mountain plumage	64
Cleanup and growth	65
The guards in Revlingfjerdingen	67
Cleanup and growth	67
Settlement in the entire southern village	70
Usage sharing	70
The gardens in the middle of the village	70
Cleanup and growth	73
Usage sharing	74
The gardens in Brøttum	74
Growth and clearing	75
Usage sharing	76
Settlement in the village	76

4. Guard and people	78
Livestock farming	79
Horse breeding	81
Arable farming	84
Modes of operation in arable farming	85
Attractive industries	88
Hunting	89
The forest	89
Iron extraction	90
Blacksmith and metal work	90
Indoor work	91
Cooking	91
Beer brewing	94
Textile work	95

5. Daily life and community	97
Birth and baptism	97
Care and training of the children	99
Adolescence and adulthood	100
Old age and death	100
Weapons team	101
Murder and trial	103
Road and bridge construction	103

6. Property conditions in the village	105
Who owned the land in Ringsaker?	105
Church property	106
The estates of the archbishopric	106
The land under the bishopric in Hamar	108
Hamar chapter's land holdings	109
Local church property	109
When did the goods transfer take place?	110
The social layers in the village	110
Jarlen - Sigurd from Rør	111
Markus at Skog i Brøttum and Sigurd Markusfostre - Who were they?	112
Knights and other nobles	113
Prester	114
Farmers with land	115
sharpshooter	116

7. Women in the rural community	118
Women landowners	118
Attachment between woman and man	118
Dowry or home succession	119
Assignment	120
Distribution of inheritance between women and men	121
Inheritance from husbands	122
Farming rights	123
Loss of inheritance rights	123
Gifts for women	124
Gifts and wills from women	124

8. Purchase and sale	126
Real estate and personal property	126
An old leather letter from Ulven på Velong	128
Size and price of sales land	131
When was the land sold?	132
Who bought and sold land?	133
Why was land bought and sold?	136

9. Time and calendar	138
The year	139
Dating of the year	140
Months, weeks and days	142
Dating	143
Weekends and public holidays	143
Mass days for Norwegian saints	144
Ringsaker altar cabinet. Illustrations	145
Mass days for biblical saints	156
Days for foreign saints	158

10. Plague and desolation	160
Wasteland	162
Wastelands in Veldrebygda	163
Wastelands in the south	165
Wastelands in the middle of the city	166
Wasteland at Brøttum	167
Ødegard figures for the village	167

11. Local government in the late Middle Ages	169
Village council	169
Storekeepers	170
The team leader	171
Farmers	171
Church government	171
Featherings	172
How old were the featherlings?	175

12. The village and the community	176


III. The period from around 1530 to 1660
1. New progress in the village	179
The village in 1528	179
New farms 1528-1593	180
An explosion of clearing yards	182
Full guards, half guards and desert guards	184
Settlement development in Ringsaker	185

2. From nobles to householders	186
Noble families	186
The estate of Gyrvild Fadersdatter Gyldensparre	186
Skredsholgodset	187
Chernegodset	188
Weekday servants for Skredshol and Tjerne	188
Samsalgodset	190
Sharecroppers and sharecroppers	191
Farmers and craftsmen	192
Boys	193
The old people in the village	194
The disabled in the village	195

3. Commonwealth and authority	195
Sheriff, bailiff and sheriff. Layman and magistrate	195
Lagmannen and lagmannsgarden at Rør	197
Priest and church	198
A bitter priestly battle	199
Other public tasks in the village	200
The many treasures	202
Garrison tax and other military taxes	202
The new great treasure in 1644	203

4. Garden and house	205
The Bolstad building	205
Buildings on the farms	207
Other old residential buildings in the village	207
Outbuildings and tuna	210

5. The state of the village around 1660	211
Property conditions	213
Who owned the land?	213

Notes	217
Bibliography and printed sources	230
Unprinted sources	232

Ringsakboka : village book for Brøttum - Ringsaker - Veldre

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