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Ron Iverson
Medium member
USA
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 Posted - 02/08/2019 : 06:19:34
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This document is an amazing source for family history in a small area of Hordaland. It indicates most traditional farms were owned - some rented - by the resident farm families, records going back to mid-to-late 1500s. I am illiterate in Nynorsk but get the impression that, earlier than this, much of this land was owned by the church, or the king, or wealthy families.
Is my impression more or less correct? Was there some change in society or law around this time that made land ownership more common for peasant families? Or, is it just a matter of lack of written records from earlier times? |
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ToreL
Advanced member
Norway
842 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2019 : 11:34:56
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| As late as the mid 1600s, only a fraction of the farms in this are were owned by the farmers, but then new taxes were introducef that made it less lucrative to own land to rent it out. And of course gradually alternative and more lucrative investment opportunities turned up for the rich. |
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
5861 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2019 : 23:02:32
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Before the Reformation 1536-37 when Norway broke with the Catholic Church, the Church was the lagrest land-owner in Norway, owned ca 45 % of the land. After the Reformation all these Properties were taken ower by the king.
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Edited by - Kċarto on 02/08/2019 23:04:14 |
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Bygdebok for Alenfit
