Weight
- ort – 0.9735 g (1/512 pund)
- mark (pl. merker) –, 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 (approx. 16.2 l). 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.
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