Lawspeaker
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lawspeaker-202-1900942
title:
Lawspeaker
text:
A lawspeaker or lawman is a unique Scandinavian legal office. It has its basis in a common Germanic oral tradition, where wise people were asked to recite the law, but it was only in Scandinavia that the function evolved into an office. At first, lawspeakers represented the people, and their duties and authority were connected to the assemblies (things). For most of the last thousand years, however, they were part of the king's administration. Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241) of Iceland was a famous
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description:
Scandinavian legal office
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawspeaker
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date modified:
2023-12-26T05:56:05Z
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