A våg (plural ''våger'')Språkrådet. ''Bokmålsordboka'': våg.
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mass Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementar ...

. The standardized ''landsvåg'', which was introduced in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

with the new system of weights and measures in 1875, corresponded to three '' bismerpund'', or . The ''våg'' was used in

Eastern Norway Eastern Norway ( nb, Østlandet, nn, Austlandet) is the geographical region of the south-eastern part of Norway. It consists of the counties Vestfold og Telemark, Viken, Oslo and Innlandet. Eastern Norway is by far the most populous region o ...

Western Norway Western Norway ( nb, Vestlandet, Vest-Norge; nn, Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway. It consists of the counties Rogaland, Vestland, and Møre og Romsdal. The region has no official or political-administrativ ...

, and

Northern Norway Northern Norway ( nb, Nord-Norge, , nn, Nord-Noreg; se, Davvi-Norga) is a geographical Regions of Norway, region of Norway, consisting of the two northernmost counties Nordland and Troms og Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainlan ...

, but it varied in weight. Previously, it was often reckoned as 72

marks Marks may refer to: Business * Mark's, a Canadian retail chain * Marks & Spencer, a British retail chain * Collective trade marks, trademarks owned by an organisation for the benefit of its members * Marks & Co, the inspiration for the novel '' ...

or approximately .Richter-Hanssen, Einar. 2015. The History of the Norwegian–Spanish Salted Fish Trade. In: Knut Bjørn Lindkvist & Torbjørn Trondsen (eds), ''Nordic-Iberian Cod Value Chains: Explaining Salted Fish Trade Patterns'', pp. 23–40. Heidelberg: Springer, p. 27.Brøndum-Nielsen, Johannes. 1936. ''Nordisk kultur''. Stockholm: Bonnier, p. 107. In

Sunnmøre Sunnmøre (, en, South- Møre) is the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. Its main city is Ålesund. The region comprises the municipalities ( no, kommuner) of Giske, Hareid, Herøy, Norddal ...

the ''våg'' was equivalent to three '' lispund'' or about , but in

Sunnhordland Sunnhordland is a traditional district in the western region of Norway. The district consists of the southern coastal regions of the old Hordaland county (now part of Vestland county). It includes the areas that surround the mouth of the Hardang ...

it was reckoned as three '' spann'' or 90 marks; that is, about .

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