Með lögum skal land vort byggja: ‘With Law Shall the Land be Built.’ Law-Speaking and Identity in the Medieval Norse Atlantic

Gwyn Jones famously posited the notion of a cogent Norse identity as manifested by common language, culture, and mythology; further, as he clarified in his landmark work A History of the Vikings, law and the practice of law in local and national assemblies was a fundamental component of such a unify...

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Main Author: Fee, Christopher R.
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College 2012
Subjects:
Atlantic Ocean
Norse Law
North Atlantic Identity
English Language and Literature
Literature in English
Anglophone outside British Isles and North America
North America
Ethnic and Cultural Minority
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/engfac/63
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=engfac
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Summary:Gwyn Jones famously posited the notion of a cogent Norse identity as manifested by common language, culture, and mythology; further, as he clarified in his landmark work A History of the Vikings, law and the practice of law in local and national assemblies was a fundamental component of such a unifying cultural characteristic: "…for the Scandinavian peoples in general, their respect for law, their insistence upon its public and democratic exercise at the Thing, and its validity for all free men, together with their evolution of a primitive and exportable jury system, is one of the distinctive features of their culture throughout the Viking Age…." [excerpt]

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