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Torgny 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.
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 ...
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. Similar to Norway, thing sites in Sweden experienced changes in administrative organization beginning in the late tenth and eleventh century. This ...
The aristocracy of Norway is the modern and medieval aristocracy in Norway. ... In 1488, King John ennobled Eggert Eggertsson, Lawspeaker (Norwegian: lagmann) ...
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 a claimant for the Norwegian throne . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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Nikolas Sigurdsson Paus (mentioned 1329–1347) was a Norwegian nobleman who served as the Lawspeaker of Oslo shortly before the Black Death. He is mentioned in written sources in medieval Oslo between 1329 and 1347, and as lawspeaker in 1347, [1] two years before the Black Death reached the city. He was probably born in the late 13th century.