trimmings

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Shortly after his father's death, Ragnvald returned, and, fortified by a grant from King Magnus of Norway, whom he had helped to gain the throne, claimed his father's two trithings of the Orkney jarldom.

From Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns by Gray, James

These trithings still subsist in the large county of York, where by an easy corruption they are de-113-nominated ridings; the north, the east, and the west-riding.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir