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In Sweden, this office was the most important one of regional governments, where each lagsaga (usually the same as the traditional province) was the jurisdiction of a lawspeaker who was subordinate to the lawspeaker of Tiundaland. The lawspeaker presided over the things, worked as a judge and formulated the laws that had been decided by the people.
Haukr or Hauk Erlendsson (died 1334; Modern Icelandic: Haukur Erlendsson [ˈhœyːkʏr ˈɛrˌlɛn(t)sˌsɔːn]) was lawspeaker (lawman) of Iceland, later lawspeaker and knight of Norway, known for having compiled a number of Icelandic sagas and other materials mostly in his own hand, bound in a book called the Hauksbók after him.
Torgny Lagmann speaks at Uppsala, by C. Krogh. Torgny the Lawspeaker (Old Icelandic: Þorgnýr lögmaðr [ˈθorˌɡnyːr ˈlɵɣˌmɑðr], Swedish: Torgny Lagman) is the name of one of at least three generations of lawspeakers by the name Þorgnýr, who appear in the Heimskringla by the Icelandic scholar and chieftain Snorri Sturluson, and in the less known Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa and ...
In older times the laws were memorized by a lawspeaker (lagman). Around 1200, the laws began to be transferred to written form. This was probably due to clerical influences. The oldest of the Swedish provincial laws is the Västgöta Law (Västgötalagen), which was used in the province of Västergötland, in western Sweden. Like Gutalagen, it ...
The office of lögréttumaður existed in Icelandic society from the end of the Icelandic Commonwealth around 1262 until the abolition of the Alþingi in 1800.. A legislature (Icelandic: lögrétta) had existed in Iceland since the foundation of Alþingi, and the goðar and their advisers had places in it, but when Icelanders came under the rule of the King of Norway, the role of the ...
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The United States and Norway have a very long tradition of positive relations.. The American Revolution of 1776 had a profound impact on Norway, and the democratic ideals of the United States Constitution served as a model for the authors of Norway's own Constitution of 1814, including Christian Magnus Falsen.