As in thecase of the Danes, theNorwegians' earliest standards of measure can be derived from theirship burials. The 60-Norwegian-feet-longKvalsund ship (18.8 m; 61.8 ft) was built ca. 700 AD and differs from theDanish boats less than it does from theOseberg,Gokstad andTune ships which all date from ca. 800 AD. Thwarts are typically spaced about 3 Norwegian feet (0.94 m; 3.1 ft) apart.^[1]

In 1541, analen inDenmark andNorway was defined by law to be theSjællandalen. Subsequently, thealen was defined by law as 2 Rhine feet from 1683. From 1824, the basic unit was defined as afot being derived fromastronomy as the length of a one-second pendulum times 12/38 at alatitude of 45°. Themetric system wasintroduced in Norway in 1875, with Norway being one of the original signatories of themeter convention.

• skruppel – scruple, 1/12linje or approx. 0.18 mm.
• linje – line, 1/12tomme or approx. 2.18 mm
• tomme – thumb (inch), 1/12fot, approx. 26.1 mm. This unit was commonly used for measuring timber until the 1970s. Nowadays, the word refers invariably to theEnglishinch, 25.4 mm.
• kvarter – quarter, 1/4alen.
• fot – foot, 1/2alen. From 1824, 313.74 mm.
• alen – forearm orell, 627.48 mm from 1824, 627.5 mm from 1683, 632.6 mm from 1541. Before that, local variants.
• favn –fathom (pl.favner), 3alen, 1.882m.
• stang – rod, 5alen or 3.1374 m
• lås – 15favner, 28.2 m
• fjerdingsvei – quarter mile, alt.fjerding, 1/4mil, i.e. 2.82 km.
• mil orlandmil –Norwegian mile, spelledmiil prior to 1862, 18,000alen (36,000 feet, 7.018 miles or 11.295 km). Before 1683, amil was defined as 17600alen or 11.13 km. Another old land-mile, 11.824 km. The unit survives to this day, but in ametric 10 km adaptation
• rast –lit. "rest", the old name of themil. A suitable distance between rests when walking. Believed to be approx. 9 km before 1541.
• Kaffekok, a similar term torast used in the north by the indigenousSami people.
• steinkast – stone's throw, perhaps 25favner, used to this day as a very approximate measure of a short distance.

• favn – fathom (pl.favner), 3alen, 1.85 m
• kabellengde –cable length, 100favner, 185,2 m, or 1/10 international nautical mile, 185.2 m
• kvartmil – quarter mile, 10kabellengder, 1852 m. Kvartmil was a quarter of a Sjømil.
• sjømil – sea mile, now often (but wrongly) the international nautical mile, 1.852 km, but also used for other nautical miles and thegeografisk mil. Sjømil was 3950 fathoms.^[2]
• geografisk mil – 7421 m or 4.007 nautical miles, defined as 1/15 Equatorial degree or 4 minutes of arc.

• mål – 100kvadrat rode, 984 m². The unit survives to this day, but in a 1000 m² adaptation, synonym for the metricdecare (dekar in Norwegian).
• kvadrat rode – squarestang, 9.84 m²
• tønneland – "barrel of land", 4mål

• favn – 1alen by 1favn by 1favn, 2.232 m³, used for measuring firewood to this day.
• skjeppe – 1/8tønne, i.e. 17.4L.
• tønne – barrel, 4.5fot³, 138.9L.

• ort – 0.9735 g (1/512 pund)
• mark (pl.merker) –, 1/2pund, 249.4g, 218.7 g before 1683.
• pund – Pound, alt.skålpund, 2merker 0.4984 kg, was 0.46665 kg before 1683
• laup – used for butter, 17.93 kg (approx. 16.2 L). 1laup is 36pund or 4spann or 72merker.
• spann – Same aslaup, for other commodities such as grain
• bismerpund – 12pund, 5.981 kg
• vette – 28.8mark or 6.2985 kg.
• våg – 1/8skippund, 17.9424 kg.
• skippund – ship's pound, 159.488 kg. Was about 151 kg in 1270.

• skilling – Shilling.
• mark – 16skilling.
• ort – 24skilling.
• riksdaler – Until 1813, Norwegianthaler. 1riksdaler is 4ort or 6mark or 96skilling.
• speciedaler – Since 1816. 1speciedaler is 5ort or 120skilling. From 1876, 1speciedaler is 4kroner (Norwegian crown,NOK).

• tylft – 12, alsodusin
• snes – 20
• skokk – 60
• stort hundre – Large hundred, 120
• stabel orstort tusen – "stack" / Large thousand 1200 (used about planks)
• gross – 12 dozens (144)

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