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A thing, [a] also known as a folkmoot, assembly, tribal council, and by other names, was a governing assembly in early Germanic 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 travel.
Thynghowe was an important Viking Age open-air assembly place or thing, located at Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, England. It was lost to history until its rediscovery in 2005 by the husband and wife team of Stuart Reddish and Lynda Mallett, local history enthusiasts. [1]
The assemblies were held at Gamla Uppsala. The Thing of all Swedes (allra Svía þing, [1] Þing allra Svía, [2] Disaþing, [3] or Kyndilþing [4]) was the governing assembly held from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages at Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, [5] occurring at the end of February or early March in conjunction with a great fair and a religious celebration called Dísablót.
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
The Alþingi ([ˈalˌθiɲcɪ]; Icelandic for 'general meeting'), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ a ] The Althing was founded in 930 at Þingvellir (' thing fields' or 'assembly fields'), about 45 kilometres (28 mi) east of what ...
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England suffered from internal divisions and was a relatively easy prey given the proximity of many towns to the sea or to navigable rivers. Lack of organised naval opposition throughout Western Europe allowed Viking ships to travel freely, raiding or trading as opportunity permitted.
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