The institution known as leiðangr (Old Norse), leidang (Norwegian), leding (Danish), ledung (Swedish), expeditio (Latin) or sometimes lething (English)...

call to leidang, the Viking Age equivalent of military conscript service, the skeppslag in Roden was responsible for raising ships for the leidang navy....

administered the sacrifices at Uppsala and who was the commander of the leidang during wars. It is not known when they united for the first time, but already...

goes back to the leidang which was first established by King Håkon the Good at the Gulating in 955, although variants of the Leidang had at that time...

Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...

Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...

Its name refers to its role of providing 800 men and 32 ships for the leidang of the Swedish kings at Uppsala. Snorri Sturluson relates that Tiundaland...

King or his officials. In medieval Scandinavia the leiðangr (Old Norse), leidang (Norwegian), leding, (Danish), ledung (Swedish), lichting (Dutch), expeditio...

troop deployments in shallow water. Longships were used extensively by the Leidang, the Scandinavian defence fleets. The longship allowed the Norse to go...

region, with Oslo as their main seat. In spring 1197, Sverre called out the leidang from the northern and western parts of the country, and in May he was able...

Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...

media related to Swedish Navy. Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences Leidang List of Swedish wars List of Swedish military commanders List of ships...

Its name refers to its role of providing 400 men and 16 ships for the leidang of the Swedish king at Uppsala. Snorri Sturluson relates that Tiundaland...

The Kalmar Crusade (Swedish: Kalmare ledung) was a sea-based crusade or leidang led by the Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader performed in 1123 to christianize...

Kipchaks Klephts Knights Knights Templar Khandayats Kshatriya Kshetri Ligures Leidang Maasai Maccabees Macedonians Macedonian phalanx Maharlika Mangudai Mamluk...

centralisation of government in the Scandinavian countries, the old system of leidang—a fleet mobilisation system, where every skipreide (ship community) had...

ranging from the Ynglings (Scylfings) to powerful warriors within the Leidang system, or local strongmen who had enriched themselves through trade due...

gentry over the drużyna as his base of power.[citation needed] Housecarl Leidang Hird Voluntary People's Druzhina, a civilian organization in the Soviet...

Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...

Attundaland Feudal measurement Fjärdhundraland Henry de Bracton Hundred Rolls Leidang Moot mound, the meeting place of an Anglo-Saxon hundred Roslagen Tiundaland...

Munch suggests an initial fleet of 160 ships, of which 100 were from the leidang (public levy) and returned shortly after arrival; the fleet accompanying...

force. Haakon responded to this request by gathering a fleet of over 120 leidang warships and setting out in July 1263 to defend the Isles. Haakon stopped...

performance to the crew of the leidang fleet. The provisioning system soon developed into a regular tax, the leidang tax. The leidang was codified in the provincial...

Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...

his consent. Although he was old, he departed to Garðaríki with a large leidang. One night, as they were harboured in the Gulf of Finland, he had a strange...

to its duty of providing 1000 men and 40 ships for the Swedish king's leidang. A list from 1314 defines Tiundaland as Bälinge Hundred, Gästrikland, Håbo...

the people is made by Adam of Bremen around 1070, in reference to the leidang shipping fleet. In the medieval age, the "Helsings" were the Swedish speaking...

brothers and fled to Norway in 1275, this stirred Magnus into gathering a leidang-fleet for the first and only time in his reign. With a large fleet, he...

subjects to the test: he appears to have mustered most of the Swedish leidang, 3,600 men, and he ousted the Norwegian occupation force. Although Sweden...

They were owned by coastal farmers and assembled by the king to form the leidang in times of conflict, in order to have a powerful naval force at his disposal...