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    A lawspeaker or lawman (Swedish: lagman, Old Swedish: laghmaþer or laghman, Danish: lovsigemand, Norwegian: lagmann, Icelandic: lög(sögu)maður [ˈlœɣ(ˌsœːɣʏ)ˌmaːðʏr̥]...
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    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...
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    Snorri Sturluson (category Lawspeakers)
    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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    gathering was the Lögberg, or Law Rock, a rocky outcrop on which the Lawspeaker (lögsögumaður) took his seat as the presiding official of the assembly...
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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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    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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    literally means "lawman" and originally referred to the legal function of lawspeaker. This old title was brought back into use to refer to the head of government...
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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 assembly and recited...
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    and their advisors. They also appointed a Lawspeaker (lögsögumaður) once every three years. The Lawspeaker recited and clarified laws at Lögberg ("Law...
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    Uppsala at the end of February or in early March. As in Iceland, the lawspeaker presided over the assemblies, but the Swedish king functioned as a judge...
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    and lawspeaker of Uppland, and one of the richest landowners of the country, and his wife Ingeborg Bengtsdotter, a member of the so-called Lawspeaker branch...
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  • Hirst as Helga, Floki's partner Morgan C. Jones as The Law Giver, the lawspeaker of Kattegat Carrie Crowley as Elisef, wife of Erik John Kavanagh as The...
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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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    some extent written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker, and historian Snorri Sturluson c. 1220. It is considered the fullest...
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    and later the Swedish Archbishopric. All the Swedish lawspeakers were subordinate to the lawspeaker of Tiundaland. The name of Attunda was revived as Attunda...
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  • that enforce the laws of God Emperor Doom. King Thor serves as their lawspeaker while Thunderer Thorlief was a famous Thor Corps member. The Tough Kid...
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    the Franks were memorised by "rachimburgs", who were analogous to the lawspeakers of Scandinavia. By the 6th century, when these laws first appeared in...
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    published in Denmark according to which the waterfall was named when the lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði made Christianity the official religion of Iceland...
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    cross in all directions and amassed the leidang at Uppsala. Torgny the Lawspeaker advised him to block the waterway leading to Uppsala with a palisade of...
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    He made peace with King Olof Skötkonung of Sweden through Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker, and was for some time engaged to Olof's daughter, Ingegerd, though without...
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  • Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi (category Lawspeakers)
    [ˈθɔrˌceir ˈljousˌvɛhtniŋkaˌkɔːðɪ ˈθɔrˌcʰɛlsˌsɔːn]; born c. 940) was a lawspeaker in Iceland's Althing from 985 to 1001. In the year 999 or 1000, Iceland's...
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    societies, made up of the free men of the community and presided by lawspeakers. The thing was the assembly of the free men of a country, province or...
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  • claiming the Lawspeaker accidentally set the wasps on himself and appointing Rufus as the new Lawspeaker. With Orm freed and Rufus Lawspeaker, Orm foolishly...
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    kingdom, but Ragnvald was supported by his foster-father Thorgny the Lawspeaker.[citation needed] Thorgny delivered a powerful speech in which he reminded...
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    the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker, and historian Snorri Sturluson, and the Poetic Edda, a collection of...
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  • Lagman may refer to: A lawspeaker Lagman (surname) Lagemann (surname) Lagmann Godredsson Lagmann mac Gofraid (fl. early eleventh century), King of the...
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  • mother of King Inge II of Norway. She married the Swedish Folkvid the Lawspeaker in 1177 but abandoned him to marry the Norwegian Birkebeiner Bård Guttormsson...
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    Scandinavia, bodies known as things consisted of freemen presided by a lawspeaker. These deliberative bodies were responsible for settling political questions...
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