req. for help reading old text
Started by kpeterson · 2010-09-14
kpeterson · 2010-09-14#1
The text below is from Skattematrikkelen 1647 for Telemark from page 12 under "Gjerpen"
I tried to transcribe some of it, but there are a few archaic words/spellings that are confusing me.
Thanks for helping me!
original text from book
Meen bessides aff lensmanden Simen Simensen frj. for schat.
schylder aarlingen 10 huder.
som hand och sine meddarffuinger
och sødschinde eir med bøxell.
med en wnderligende ødegaardt kaldes Buer.
Bunden bygger.
Meen (farm) request (?) for Sheriff Simen Simensen, freeholder, for yearly taxes owing on 10 hides on which he has [meddarffuinger? med deres svinger?] [och sødschinde?] with leasehold, with a curious abandonded Bubonic Plague farm called “Buer”
[bunden?] building