Barrel of land

A barrel in a Swedish museum.

A barrel of land (Danish: tønde land,[1] Norwegian: tønneland,[2] Swedish: tunnland,[3] Finnish: tynnyrinala) is a Scandinavian unit of area. The word may originate from the area of fields one could seed with a barrel of grain seeds.[1] The acre is the equivalent Anglo-Saxon unit. Because the barrel sizes varied by country, the area unit does too. One barrel can be approximated as half a hectare.

  1. ^ a b "tønde". Gyldendal - Den Store Danske.
  2. ^ "tønne – arealenhet". Store Norske Leksikon. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  3. ^ "tunnland". Nationalencyklopedin AB.