- mid-13th
century and onwards, the
lawspeakers became more
attached to the king, and it was
common that
lawspeakers were
members of the king's council...
- þáttr Svíakappa and Hróa þáttr heimska. They were the
lawspeakers of Tiundaland, and all
lawspeakers in the
Swedish kingdom were
their subordinates. The...
-
Christians choose a new
lawspeaker for themselves,
Hallr á Síðu. He
reaches an
agreement with Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði, the
pagan lawspeaker, that Þorgeirr will...
- society, made up of the free
people of the
community presided over by a
lawspeaker.
Things took
place regularly,
usually at
prominent places accessible by...
- an
Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was
elected twice as
lawspeaker of the
Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is
commonly thought to have...
-
Archbishopric and from
which Uppsala öd had
taken its name. All the
Swedish lawspeakers were
subordinate to the one of Tiundaland.
Folkland (Swedish provinces)...
-
Haukur Erlendsson [ˈhœyːkʏr ˈɛrˌlɛn(t)sˌsɔːn]) was
lawspeaker (lawman) of Iceland,
later lawspeaker and
knight of Norway,
known for
having compiled a number...
- the
border between Sweden and
Denmark and
lists of
bishops in Skara,
lawspeakers in Västergötland and
Swedish kings. The
latter begins with Olof Skötkonung...
-
Folkvid was the
lawspeaker of Värmland
during the
second half of the 12th century. He was the
father of Håkon Galen, an earl
whose son Knut Håkonsson was...
-
practiced by
North Germanic peoples. It was
originally memorized by
lawspeakers, but
after the end of the
Viking Age they were
committed to writing,...
