Norse States
Ridings are originally Scandinavian institutions.
In Iceland the third part of a thing which corresponded roughly to an English county was called þrithjungr. The island of Gotland and the Swedish province Närke were also divided into þrithjungar instead of hundreds.
In Norway (excluding Iceland) the þrithjungr seems to have been an ecclesiastical division.
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