Scandinavian-Britain

THE FIVE BOROUGHS IIIwards in each town of which the lagraen were thepresidents.Another characteristic of the Danish districts is theuse of the "long hundred," 120 for 100. The housesin the town and the acres in the county of Lincolnare so reckoned in and the survival of thisDomesday',notation to modern times is seen even in Whitaker'sAlmanac, which tells us that in the timber trade 120deals =100, and that on the East coast fish are stillcounted by the long hundred (in this case =132)." Six score to the hundred" is still familiar to LakeDistrict gardeners and wood-mongers. Twelve carucatesmade a territorial hundred, and twelve marks amonetary hundred, in the Danish part of England,just as the word kundrc?& in old Icelandic alwaysmeant 120 for ; example, when the saga says that thebodyguard of King Olaf numbered a "hundred" men.sixty hiiskarls and sixty " guests."In Leicestershire, which was less completely Danishthan Lincolnshire, the land was not reckoned inhundreds of twelve carucates, thoughit was acarucated district : the hide of Leicestershire was asum of eighteen carucates (Round, Feudal England,p. 82), This is borne out by the ancient place-namesas seen in the Leicestershire Survey (1124-1129), inwhich the proportion of obviously Scandinavian originis not very great; out of 174 entries there are 38"byes," and a few such as Thormodeston, Thurketleston,Grimeston, Ravenston and Normanton,betraying the name of a Danish settler, with Tungaand Houwes, making a little more than a quarter