- 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...
-
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...
-
Archbishopric and from
which Uppsala öd had
taken its name. All the
Swedish lawspeakers were
subordinate to the one of Tiundaland.
Folkland (Swedish provinces)...
-
Christians choose a new
lawspeaker for themselves,
Hallr á Síðu. He
reaches an
agreement with Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði, the
pagan lawspeaker, that Þorgeirr will...
- and
later the
Swedish Archbishopric. All the
Swedish lawspeakers were
subordinate to the
lawspeaker of Tiundaland. The name of
Attunda was
revived as Attunda...
- 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...
-
gathering was the Lögberg, or Law Rock, a
rocky outcrop on
which the
Lawspeaker (lögsögumaður) took his seat as the
presiding official of the ****embly...
- the
Franks were
memorised by "rachimburgs", who were
analogous to the
lawspeakers of Scandinavia. By the 6th century, when
these laws
first appeared in...
-
dissolved and
replaced by a
Danish judiciary, and the post of løgmaður (
lawspeaker) was
likewise replaced by a Danish-appointed
amtmand (equivalent to a...
