Thingwall
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Thingwall is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside, England. The village is situated approximately 8 km to the south west of Birkenhead and 3 km north east of Heswall. Historically part of
The Basset Hound public house, Thingwall
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
Thingwall
…total ward population at 13,007. From the Old Norse þing vollr, meaning 'assembly field', the name indicates that it was once the site of a Germanic thing (or þing). Similar place names in the British Isles include Tynwald, Dingwall, and Tingwall; see also Thingvellir in Iceland and Tingvoll in Norway. A…
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.