In Denmark, ? – 1907, when Denmark adopted the metric system, two units:
A unit of capacity, = ¼ skæppe = ⅛ fjerding, about 4.3475 liters. (In
Danish, “fjerding” means “fourth” or “quarter.”)
A unit of land area, about 172.38 [689.53???--Doursther] square meters. Conceptually, the
amount of land that could be sown with a fjerdingkar of seed; the fjerdingkar is a
seed measure of land.
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