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wards in each town of which the lagmen were the
presidents.
Another characteristic of the Danish districts is the
use of the "long hundred," 120 for 100. The houses
in the town and the acres in the county of Lincoln
are so reckoned in Domesday, and the survival of this
notation to modern times is seen even in Whitaker’s
Almanac, which tells us that in the timber trade 120
deals =100, and that on the East coast fish are still
counted by the long hundred (in this case =132).
"Six score to the hundred"
is still familiar to Lake
District gardeners and wood-mongers. Twelve carucates made a territorial hundred, and twelve marks a
monetary hundred, in the Danish part of England,
just as the word hundrað in old Icelandic always
meant 120;
for example, when the saga says that the
bodyguard of King Olaf numbered a "hundred" men.
sixty húskarls and sixty
"guests."
In Leicestershire, which was less completely Danish
than Lincolnshire, the land was not reckoned in
hundreds of twelve carucates, though it was a
carucated district: the hide of Leicestershire was a
sum of eighteen carucates (Round, Feudal England,
p. 82), This is borne out by the ancient place-names
as seen in the Leicestershire Survey (1124-1129), in
which the proportion of obviously Scandinavian origin
is not very great; out of 174 entries there are 38
"byes," and a few such as Thormodeston, Thurketleston, Grimeston, Ravenston and Normanton,
betraying the name of a Danish settler, with Tunga
and Houwes, making a little more than a quarter
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