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Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker ( Old Icelandic: Þorgnýr lögmaðr, 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 Hróa þáttr heimska.
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Þorgnýr and Lawspeaker
Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker showing the power of his office to the King of Sweden at Gamla Uppsala, 1018.
A famous incident took place when Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker told the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung that the people, not the king, held power in Sweden ; the king realized that he was powerless against the thing and gave in.
According to Snorri, Ragnvald was the son of jarl Ulf Tostesson and Ingeborg and the foster-son of Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker.
However, at the Thing at Gamla Uppsala, Ragnvald and his foster-father Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker had to force Olof, the Swedish king, to promise his daughter to Olaf, the Norwegian king, whom he did not like.
This was the location of Mora Thing ( called Múlaþing by Snorri Sturluson, see Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker ), where the Swedish kings were elected.
The detail that the Swedes were not only entitled to elect their king, but that they also had the right to depose him was institutionalized a long time before, as attested by Snorri Sturlason's ( died 1241 ) accounts of Swedish history ( the speech of Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker, and the deaths of Domalde and Egil in the Heimskringla ).
Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker showing the power of his office to the king of Sweden at Gamla Uppsala, 1018.
Two of the most famous lawspeakers are Snorri Sturluson and Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker.
The Swedish king was greatly angered and threatened to banish Ragnvald from his kingdom, but Ragnvald was supported by his foster-father Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker, who was the wisest and most respected man in Sweden.
In Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa about Styrbjörn Starke, appears a Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker who is probably the father of the previously mentioned Þorgnýr.
This Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker was very old and almost blind and so he could not take part in the battle between Eric the Victorious and Styrbjörn.
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Hróa þáttr heimska or the Tale of Roi the Fool is a short story ( þáttr ) from Iceland about a Dane called Hrói the Fool who is helped in a legal dispute by the wise old Swede Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker, and which takes place in the late 10th century.
Their purpose appears to be to present the Swedish court, its traditions and Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker.
He then met a beautiful girl called Sigrbjörg who had heard of him as Hrói the Fool, and she said that she was the daughter of Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker and that he was no friend of Helgi and his brothers.
Hrói hid and heard Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker arrive.
The next day Hrói accompanied Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker to the court at Uppsala and Þorgnýr presided the interrogation.
However, when Hrói returned to Sweden he found his father-in-law Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker dead, but his son Þorgnýr had succeeded him as lawspeaker, and this Þorgnýr was the wisest of men.
Þorgnýr and Swedish
This Þorgnýr is held to have historic basis, but Snorri's account is doubted by modern Swedish historians, who lack native Swedish documentation on the Tiundaland lawspeakers of this time.
Their purpose appears to be to present the Swedish court, its traditions and Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker.
Þorgnýr and is
This Þorgnýr is also mentioned in Hróa þáttr heimska as a wise and just old man.
Þorgnýr and at
Þorgnýr asked his daughter if she know whether Hrói would be at the thing the next day.
Þorgnýr said that he would be at the thing the next day and see to it that justice was done against the three brothers.
Þorgnýr and three
However, Þorir did not agree on this procedure, and so Þorgnýr stated that those three men were wicked and unmanly and had too long weaved webs of lies around them.
Þorgnýr and by
Consequently, he had the right to have Helgi as his thrall, and this was seconded by Þorgnýr.
Hrói and his brother-in-law Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker shared the inheritance in concord and Hrói was considered by all to be an excellent man.
When the forces meet, Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker has created an ingenious war machine by tying horses and cows together with spears and spikes.
Þorgnýr and .
When Þorgnýr was gone, Sigrbjörg told Hrói to join her father the next day.
Lawspeaker and Swedish
The Swedish king was greatly angered and threatened to banish Ragnvald from his kingdom, but Ragnvald was supported by his foster-father Thorgny Lawspeaker.
Magnus Minnisköld was a medieval Swedish Lawspeaker from the House of Bjelbo.
Lawspeaker and one
The most celebrated saint of Sweden was the daughter of the knight, Birger Persson of the family of Finsta, governor and lawspeaker of Uppland, and one of the richest landowners of the country, and his wife, a member of the so-called Lawspeaker branch of the Folkunga family.
Lawspeaker and at
The Lawspeaker recited and clarified laws at Lögberg (“ Law Rock ”), located at the center of Þingvellir.
The Lawspeaker, elected for three years at a time, presided over the assembly and recited the law of the land.
Lawspeaker and three
They also appointed a Lawspeaker ( lögsögumaður ) once every three years.
Lawspeaker and lawspeakers
** List of lawspeakers, see Lawspeaker
Lawspeaker and by
Laws were not written down, but were instead memorized by an elected Lawspeaker ( lögsögumaður ).
Sverre's actions offered her a welcome possibility to divorce from the marriage with Folkvid the Lawspeaker, into which she claimed to have been forced by Erling Skakke.
Lawspeaker and Snorri
In Olaf the Holy's saga, Snorri Sturluson quotes Thorgny Lawspeaker on king Björn:
Lawspeaker and .
In the year 999 or 1000 the Lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði made Christianity the official religion of Iceland.
The Law Council appointed members of the Fifth Court ( a kind of appellate court ), appointed the Lawspeaker, and took part in the election of the bishop.
Old and Icelandic
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" The root also appears in Old Saxon fri which means " beloved lady ", in Swedish as fria (" to propose for marriage ") and in Icelandic as frjá which means " to love.
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