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by appropriating land, hindered the inheritance laws from breaking up
all Faroese land into narrow strips, as alloidal land is today.
Early in the medieval period these institutions had already begun to
appropriate one estate after another. Such estates were not divided up
any smaller than they were at that time, unless a direct administrative
decision was taken concerning that matter. In this way, by the time of
the Reformation about half the land was exempt from the system of
inheritance. In 1600 some Faroese býlingar and a few small villages,
about 30 in number, were still a single estate, while almost all other
býlingar had been divided up.
It is decisive for an archaeological evalution of a Norse medieval estate
whether the land belongs to the Church, the King or other institutíon, or
whether it is alloidal land. In the former situation the estate can be one
farm with one household, while in the latter it will usually have already
been divided up into several farms and households in the medieval period.
býlingur sing, býlingar pl; ‘small group of houses forming a separate
subdivision of a village’.
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