- 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...
-
Christians choose a new
lawspeaker for themselves,
Hallr á Síðu. He
reaches an
agreement with Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði, the
pagan lawspeaker, that Þorgeirr will...
-
Archbishopric and from
which Uppsala öd had
taken its name. All the
Swedish lawspeakers were
subordinate to the one of Tiundaland.
Folkland (Swedish provinces)...
- and
later the
Swedish Archbishopric. All the
Swedish lawspeakers were
subordinate to the
lawspeaker of Tiundaland. The name of
Attunda was
revived as Attunda...
-
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...
- 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...
-
would gather at a
place called a
thingstead and were
presided over by
lawspeakers. The
alltings were
where legal and
political matters were discussed....
