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In 1699, Sapherson gives a total of 12848 total soldiers in Norway, with 1838 of those hvervede infantry, or professional soldiers, and 8668 national, or conscripted infantry. The rest of the soldiers, primarily artillery and garrison soldiers, appear to be professional soldiers. (Sapherson, p. 28).

The infantry regiment at Bergenhus Fortress, rather large at 1495 soldiers, is listed as a national, or conscripted regiment. The fortress is rather small, so the soldiers would have lived at their home farms or shops and reported for duty as needed. There is no indication that these conscripted soldiers were paid by the government and would have been supported by their home farms. Infantry uniforms coats were mainly light grey with various colored linings or red with a blue lining.

The artillery regiment, composed of 261 men, was divided into seven companies that served the seven fortresses in Norway with cannon defense: Bergenhus, Askerhus, Kongsvinger, Frederiksstad, Trondhjeim, Frederiksshald, and Christianssund. Artillery uniform coats may have been violet with a green lining.

One of the interesting parts of the Norwegian army were the courier and border patrol regiments on skis, called the skiløperes..

According to Esposito, Danish farms were grouped by fours, supplying one soldier per group. Norway apparently had groups of two, with one full-time soldier for every two farms, and one reserve soldier for every four farms. I can imagine the drama over deciding who would serve, and the resentment over those left behind having to shoulder the work of the missing man without compensation. 

In Norway, many were fishermen rather than farmers. I am still looking for a source for how the allotment of soldiers went for fisheries.

 

Source: C.A. Sapherson, The Danish Army 1699-1715, Partizan Press, 1997.

Source: Gabriele Esposito, Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2019.