• The institution known as leiðangr (Old Norse), leidang (Norwegian), leding (Danish), ledung (Swedish), expeditio (Latin) or sometimes lething (English)...
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    call to leidang, the Viking Age equivalent of military conscript service, the skeppslag in Roden was responsible for raising ships for the leidang navy....
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    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...
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    Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...
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    Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...
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    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...
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    troop deployments in shallow water. Longships were used extensively by the Leidang, the Scandinavian defence fleets. The longship allowed the Norse to go...
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    King or his officials. In medieval Scandinavia the leiðangr (Old Norse), leidang (Norwegian), leding, (Danish), ledung (Swedish), lichting (Dutch), expeditio...
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    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...
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    Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...
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  • Kalmar Expedition (Swedish: Kalmare ledung) was a sea-based crusade or leidang led by the Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader performed in 1123 to christianize...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    media related to Swedish Navy. Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences Leidang List of Swedish wars List of Swedish military commanders List of ships...
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    gentry over the drużyna as his base of power.[citation needed] Housecarl Leidang Hird Voluntary People's Druzhina, a civilian organization in the Soviet...
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    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...
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    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...
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    ranging from the Ynglings (Scylfings) to powerful warriors within the Leidang system, or local strongmen who had enriched themselves through trade due...
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    centralisation of government in the Scandinavian countries, the old system of leidang—a fleet mobilisation system, where every skipreide (ship community) had...
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    Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...
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  • Attundaland Feudal measurement Fjärdhundraland Henry de Bracton Hundred Rolls Leidang Moot mound, the meeting place of an Anglo-Saxon hundred Roslagen Tiundaland...
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    Society Berserker Earl Ergi Erilaz Félag Germanic kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law Nithing pole Nīþ Norse clans Old Norse...
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    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...
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  • Kipchaks Klephts Knights Knights Templar Khandayats Kshatriya Kshetri Ligures Leidang Maasai Maccabees Macedonians Macedonian phalanx Maharlika Mangudai Mamluk...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    policies also resulted in the establishment of a permanent militia called the Leidang which, unlike the body he had previously planned, was to be counter-revolutionary...
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    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...
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    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...
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