Leidang

Japanese: leidang
Leidang

...However, in Denmark, where village communities were formed, village assemblies also took on the characteristics of a feudal court.
[Royalty and Military Service]
The naval service, or leiðangr (modern Norwegian: leidang, Danish: ledingen, Swedish: ledung), united the armed peasants, who had free assembly, under royal authority. In these countries surrounded by the sea, national defense required a military organization that went beyond the individual self-generated legal communities, and therefore a convening and mobilization organization that was separate from the self-generated armed groups, and a supra-territorial command authority, or royal authority.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "leidang" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ただこの点でも村落共同体を形成したデンマークでは,村の集会は領主裁判所の性格をあわせもったのである。
[王権と軍役]
 自由な集会をもつ武装農民を王権のもとに結集させたのは,海軍役=レイザングleiðangr(現代語では,ノルウェー語でライダングleidang,デンマーク語でレディンゲンledingen,スウェーデン語でレドゥングledung)である。海にかこまれたこれらの国では国防は個々の自生的な法共同体をこえた軍事機構を,したがって自生的な武装集団とは一応別個の召集・動員機構と超領邦的指揮権=王権を必要とした。…

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