Mantal

As I understand it, a mantal is more an economic measure than an exact area measure like acres. I  will post a thread to see if we can get a Swede to explain it.

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Im not sure I responded, yet. Do send the other pages and let's see what I can do. 

You have not said how much you know about Swedish so I shall make just a few comments. Others may be interested. The Swedish language went through a spelling reform in 1906 so your documents reflect the older Swedish. Perhaps the most obvious was the major use of "f" rather than "v" in use today [deraf - derav, Gustaf-Gustav] and "w" (double v, why do we call it double u, it looks like a v) instead of the modern "v" [Swen - Sven].  Many words that used to use "e" have been reformed to use "ä", one of the three vowels Swedish has after the "z"   [ä å ö]. 

Remember that these three letters are unique and not just modifications of the letters an English speaker might see. They occur AFTER z in any kind of alphabetic sorting! It is always important to get them right, particularly in place names. I looked up örsby in the postal guide and it was in the last section, not after N.

Hope all this did not bore you.