An investigation into the district of Hornsberred with a methodological introduction

Abstract

The joint Scandinavian research project Nordiska ödegårdspro;ektet, which deals with the economic and agrarian development of Scandinavia from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, with particular emphasis upon the agrarian crisis of the late Middle Ages, is nearing its end. The work was originally planned in four stages: 1. summary of the research done in this field before 1970 and the separate collection of data and source material for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; 2. intensive examination of a number of small, uniform regions; 3. national syntheses; 4. Scandinavian synthesis. In the foreseeable future the work should be completed with the publication of a volume fulfilling the fourth and last of these objectives. Severa reports based on stages 2 and 3 of the research project have been published in recent years. Both Danish and Swedish reports on stage 2 appeared in 1977 with a national synthesis for Norway a year later.¹