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In the Orkneys and the Shetland Islands, 15ᵗʰ century – ?, a unit of mass = 6 lispunds = 1/24 last for malt, but 1/36 last for bere, the 6-row barley. The Norse equivalent was mælir.
David Balfour.
Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland from
Original Documents.
Edinburgh, 1859.
Page 127.
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