Norwegian units of measurement

Length

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

  Nautical

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

  Area

• mål - 100 kvadrat rode, 984 m². The unit survives to this day, but in a 1000 m² adaptation, synonym for the metric decare.
• kvadrat rode - square stang, 9.84 m²
• tønneland - "barrel of land", 4 mål

  Volume

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

  Weight

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

  Monetary

• skilling - Shilling.
• mark - 16 skilling.
• ort - 24 skilling.
• riksdaler - Until 1813, Norwegian thaler. 1 riksdaler is 4 ort or 6 mark or 96 skilling.
• speciedaler - Since 1816. 1 speciedaler is 5 ort or 120 skilling. From 1876, 1 speciedaler is 4 kroner.

  Miscellaneous

• tylft - 12, also dusin
• snes - 20
• skokk - 60
• stort hundre - Large hundred, 120
• stabel or stort tusen - "stack" / Large thousand 1200
• gross - 144