fiarþunger (OSw) fjarthing (ODan) fiarþungr (OGu) fjórðungr (ON) fiorþongr (OSw) fiorþunger (OSw) fiærþunger (OSw) fiærþungær (OSw) noun

Literally a ‘fourth’ of something. A lower judicial and administrative district in OSw JyL, VgL, ÖgL, SdmL, UL, VmL, and the Norwegian laws GuL and FrL. In ODan ESjL and SkL it is used in land-distribution.

In the Icelandic laws the fjórðungr was the largest administrative district beneath land (q.v.). According to Íslendingabók Iceland was divided into four fjórðungr (north, east, south and west) during the tenth century.

couplet OIce Grg Misc 238
fourth OSw ÄVgL Smb
fourth part of a hundred OSw KrL Rb
OSw MEL Rb
quarter ODan ESjL 2
OGu GL A 24c
OIce Grg passim
OIce Jó Þfb 9 Sg 2 Kge 1, 18
OIce Js Ert 25, Kab 3
ODan JyL 2, 3
OSw KrL Äb Bb Eb
OSw MESt Äb
OSw ÖgL Db
OSw SdmL Kgb, Bb, Kmb, Rb, Till
ODan SkL 73, 75, 76
OSw UL Kgb, Äb, Mb, Kmb, Blb, Rb
OSw VmL Kkb, Kgb, Äb, Mb, Jb, Kmb, Bb, Rb
ODan VSjL 78–80
quarter of a {fylki} ONorw GuL Krb, Kpb, Løb, Llb, Llb, Olb, Leb
quarter of the {hæraþ} OSw ÖgL Rb
quarter stanza OIce Jó Mah 26
OIce Js Mah 25
quarter-share OIce Grg Lbþ 215
OIce Jó Llb 62 Refs:

Hafström 1949b, 58–59; KLNM s.v. fjerding; Lundberg 1972, 78–80