Håkan Månsson

According SAOB (http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/) is the most original sense of the word a servant a household member. Today many of the word that a servant always denote someone who was poor (and needed help) - paupers, backstuguhjon - but it was not. Just think of other words such asCONNUBIAL UNION - marriage. Being (sat) on the exemption meant that parents are retired and the younger generation took over, the pension was determined then that the parents would receive a certain quantity of grain and other food, they would have to stay at some place the farm (if it was possible to a particular house (excluding cottage)), maybe they would have their own maid (maybe a girl under 15 who worked for only food and lodging), etc, depending on how the farm could. In return, helped parents with their might, but they were no longer responsible for the farm. Not only the parents could be the exception: if you had no heirs, who took over you could sell the farm (or åboskapet) with the proviso that one was allowed to stay on the sidelines. Sometimes it is printed in Hfl that some people are on the exception (it may even be what they are), sometimes you see it indirectly on the parents, who always stood at the top are omitted and are enrolled again further down. Often this occurs when the (eldest) son is getting married - it was almost impossible for someone to take over a farm without a wife. So one 'undantagshjon' is a person who retired.