Sýsla

SYSSEL (Danish ) was a historic administrative unit in Jutland, including the Duchy of Schleswig, Norway and Sweden. SYSSEL still exist today in Iceland and the Faroe Islands as a police districts and in terms of geographical regions.

Etymology

The Scandinavian word SYSSEL has its origins in Old Norse sýsla, sýsl ( f ), which means " work, employment " means, and in turn on Germanic * suhsla, * seuhsla ( " pain, distress " ) can be traced back. The Indo-European root is * seug (" sorrowful, sad, sick, infirm "). Although the word in the Old Norse form had the figurative meaning " office district ", but can still prove administrations for the past SYSSEL neither officials.

In today's Danish SYSSEL still means " work, employment " and is usually used only in the historical context in its second meaning for the old SYSSEL. The older spelling is sysæl. I kongens sysæl meant "on behalf of the King". In large Gyldendals Røde Ordbog Dansk - Engelsk (Danish - German ) no longer appears this second meaning.

Formation

The division into SYSSEL was a secular organization principle. Its origin had the administrative units in the north of Jutland, where it originated in the 10th century. This oldest northern SYSSEL continued the old grown tribal districts. The eastern areas showed no relationship with the vordänischen population. In the south, place names were taken for determination.

Compared to Harde ( mr eder) a SYSSEL is the recent historical form of organization. The SYSSEL have even adapted to the hardware limits. In Erdbuch Valdemar II the SYSSEL be called as the mean, rather geographical breakdown unity between Harde and country. The summary contained in Erdbuch several Harden under a SYSSEL not always coincided with the respective limits. Because of their geographical orientations lost SYSSEL in the 13th century in importance. Comparable they were in time with the German districts of the 11th and 12th century.

For the SYSSEL its own jurisdiction could not be detected. Rather, the seat of Things was formed from the merger of several Harden to a SYSSEL out. This, however, does not Sysselthinge emerged.

Jutland

The Jutland fifteen SYSSEL which also contained each Harden, were:

The last three SYSSEL formed from about 1200, the Duchy of Schleswig. At the site still further parts of the country were introduced, in their capacity as Danish Crown Estate (Danish Kongelev ) were not SYSSEL, but they were appended to the Istedsyssel in Valdemar Erdbuch. Within the Danish kingdom they took a special position. These include: