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The word appears in Old Norse, Old English, and modern Icelandic as þing, [b] in Middle English (as in modern English), Old Saxon, Old Dutch, and Old Frisian as thing (the difference between þing and thing is purely orthographical), in German as Ding, in Dutch and Afrikaans as ding, and in modern Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Faroese, Gutnish, and Norn as ting. [1]
[1] [2] [a] The Althing was founded in 930 at Þingvellir ('thing fields' or 'assembly fields'), about 45 kilometres (28 mi) east of what later became the country's capital, Reykjavík. After Iceland's union with Norway in 1262, the Althing lost its legislative power, [4] which was not restored until 1904 when Iceland gained home rule from Denmark.
The name Thynghowe is of Old Norse origin, although the site may be older than the Danelaw, perhaps even Bronze Age. [5] The word howe often indicates the presence of a prehistoric burial mound. [m] The thyng or thing was historically the governing assembly in Germanic peoples [n] and was introduced into some Celtic societies as well. It was ...
A Thing was an ancient judicial as well as social gathering of Germanic peoples, in an outdoor setting. The Thing sites were to be built as much as possible in a natural setting, incorporating rocks, trees, bodies of water, ruins, and hills of some historical or mythic significance.
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.
Zoom calls and meetings exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving people who were physically apart the next best thing to meeting face-to-face. But that also sparked reports of so-called Zoom ...
In the early Viking Age, during the late 8th century and most of the 9th, Norse society consisted of minor kingdoms with limited central authority and organization, leading to communities ruled according to laws made and pronounced by local assemblies called things. Lacking any kind of public executive apparatus—e.g. police—the enforcement ...
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