- A
lawspeaker or
lawman (Swedish: lagman, Old Swedish: laghmaþer or laghman, Danish: lovsigemand, Norwegian: lagmann, Icelandic: lög(sögu)maður [ˈlœɣ(ˌsœːɣʏ)ˌmaːðʏr̥]...
- an
Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was
elected twice as
lawspeaker of the
Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is
commonly thought to have...
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Torgny the
Lawspeaker (Old Icelandic: Þorgnýr lögmaðr [ˈθorˌɡnyːr ˈlɵɣˌmɑðr], Swedish:
Torgny Lagman) is the name of one of at
least three generations...
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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 at
regular intervals,
usually at
prominent places that...
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Christians choose a new
lawspeaker for themselves,
Hallr á Síðu. He
reaches an
agreement with Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði, the
pagan lawspeaker, that Þorgeirr will...
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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...
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dissolved and
replaced by a
Danish judiciary, and the post of løgmaður (
lawspeaker) was
likewise replaced by a Danish-appointed
amtmand (equivalent to a...
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Hallur Gissurarson (died 1230) was an
Icelandic lawspeaker in the 13th
century and
later a monk and abbot, at both
Helgafellsklaustur and Þykkvabæjarklaustur...
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point of the Alþingi and a
natural platform for
holding speeches. The
Lawspeaker,
elected for
three years at a time,
presided over the ****embly and recited...
