The term traditionally referred to a holder of a royal
fief in Denmark and Norway. As the fiefs were renamed
amt in 1662, the term was replaced with
amtmand. In Norway these offices evolved into the modern
fylkesmann office. Modern Norwegian historians often use the term (English: 'fief lord') instead of , although from the legal point of view, the king was the fief lord, and the title used by contemporaries was , not . While the was a fief-holder from the
nobility, the was a
civil servant who might be
ennobled as a reward. ==Modern police officer==