Handbörd

Handbörd was one of the small districts that gave Småland its name. Its old heart and meeting place lay at Högsby, on the Emån in the eastern part of the province. The early district extended from the wooded interior toward the Baltic coast, while the later hundred preserved its name in local administration. Its farms and parishes belonged to a landscape traversed by the Emån as it descends from the uplands to the sea.