{not a subscriber} [GEN-NORDIC] Præstegjeld

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G'day all!

Associated with the birthplace in the Digitalarkivet , I sometimes see the
Norge word

Præstegjeld

Like Skedsmo Præstegjeld, or Nittedalen Præstegjeld

What does this word Præstegjeld mean in English?

[Hugh Watkins]

JFBailey (by way of Alf Christophersen
<[email protected]>) wrote:

G'day all!

Associated with the birthplace in the Digitalarkivet , I sometimes see the
Norge word

Præstegjeld

Like Skedsmo Præstegjeld, or Nittedalen Præstegjeld

What does this word Præstegjeld mean in English?

ask google

Præstegjeld mean in English?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Pr ... gle+Search

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clerical district prestegjeld

parish sogn

Norwegian - American Dictionary
(300 pages, 15.000 words) Norwegian English Dictionary by Einar Haugen
ISBN ...
poor mean fattigkasse poor relief fund fattigkvarter poor quarter ...
home.online.no/~otjoerge/files/wordlist.htm

«Evenvik Præstegjeld, Sogn og Herred skal benævnes Gulen Præstegjeld,
Sogn og Herred». >>

I would like to see it on a map

Hugh W

[Stein R]

[email protected] ("JFBailey" (by way of Alf Christophersen
<[email protected]>)) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

G'day all!

Associated with the birthplace in the Digitalarkivet , I sometimes see
the Norge word

Præstegjeld

Like Skedsmo Præstegjeld, or Nittedalen Præstegjeld

What does this word Præstegjeld mean in English?

"Priest district" would be a literal translation. Some translate it
as "parish" in English. It was a local administrative church district
consisting of one or more congregations/church buildings (sokn).

Clerical records were kept at the prestegjeld level. Currently there
are 617 prestegjeld/parishes, and 1303 sokn/congregations.

Incidentally - not "Norge word" - Norge is the name of the *country*,
ie the same as "Norway" in English. "Norwegian" is "norsk".

Smil,
Stein

[Olaf]

Hei!
Prestegjeld/Præstegjeld is usually defined as a clerical district but it is
essentially a head parish. It may stand alone but may also have other
parishes or annexes under it. For your purpose the term parish is probably
adequate As a general rule a prestegjeld is coterminous with a 'kommune' =
municipality, a basic administrative unit in Norway.
Olaf


G'day all!

Associated with the birthplace in the Digitalarkivet , I sometimes see the
Norge word

Præstegjeld

Like Skedsmo Præstegjeld, or Nittedalen Præstegjeld

What does this word Præstegjeld mean in English?