Gulating
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Gulating was one of the four ancient popular assemblies or things of medieval Norway. Historically, it was the site of court and assembly for most of Western Norway and the assembly took place in what
Tusenårsstaden Gulatinget: millenium monument by Bård Breivik erected August 2005 in commemoration of 1,000 years of the Gulating at Flolid in Gulen Municipality
A page of the Older Gulaþing Law from Codex Rantzovianus.
Thing (assembly)
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A thing, also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic societies, made up of the free people of the community, and presided over by
Gulating
…Gulating (Old Norse: Gulaþing) was one of the four ancient popular assemblies or things (Norwegian: lagting) of medieval Norway. Historically, it was the site of court and assembly for most of Western Norway and the assembly took place in…
A Germanic assembly, by Charles Rochussen
Germanic thing, drawn after the depiction in a relief of the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome (193 CE)
The Icelandic Althing in session, as imagined in the 1890s by British artist W. G. Collingwood
Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker showing the power of his office to the King of Sweden at Gamla Uppsala, 1018. The lawspeaker forced King Olof Skötkonung not only to accept peace with his enemy, King Olaf the Stout of Norway, but also to give his daughter to him in marriage. Illustration by C. Krogh.