Frostating

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For the current court, see Frostating Court of Appeal.
Tinghaugen at Frosta
bautasten
at Tinghaugen
Inscription: at lögum skal land várt byggja en eigi at ulögum øyða (with law shall our land be built, and not desolated by lawlessness)

The Frostating was[when?] an early Norwegian court. It was one of the four major Things in medieval Norway. The Frostating had its seat at Tinghaugen in what is now the municipality of Frosta in Trøndelag county, Norway.[1][2] The name lives on in the present day Frostating Court of Appeal in Norway.

Tinghaugen

Tinghaugen, from the

bautasten at Tinghaugen. Frostating was arguably Norway's oldest court, pre-dating the Viking Age. The Frostating had authority over the eight districts in Trøndelag including Norðmørafylki (Nordmøre and Fosen) and Naumdølafylki (Namdalen) and at a later time, it also included Hålogaland. When Norway was united as a kingdom, the existing lagtings (law assemblies) were constituted as superior regional assemblies, Frostating being one of them. These were representative assemblies at which delegates from the various districts in each region met to award legal judgments and pass laws.[3]

Magnus Lagabøtes landslov

The first seeds of democratic evolution appeared in matters of law. The ancient regional assemblies – Frostating,

Denmark-Norway
until 1814.

King Magnus Lagabøte carried out a great effort to modernize the law-code, which gave him his epithet, Magnus the law-mender (Magnús lagabœtir). In 1274, Magnus promulgated the new national law (Magnus Lagabøtes landslov), a unified code of laws to apply for the Kingdom of Norway, including the

Faroe islands and Shetland. This replaced the different regional laws which had existed before. A unified code of laws for a whole country had until then only been introduced in the Kingdom of Sicily in the Liber Augustalis promulgated in 1231 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and the Fuero Real compiled during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile.[4][5]

Frostating seal

The Frostating seal (Frostatingseglet) shows king

coat of arms of Frosta
.

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget
    . Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  2. ^ Larson, Laurence Marcellus (1935). "The earliest Norwegian laws: being the Gulathing law and the Frostathing law". Columbia University Press. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  3. ^ "Historie" (in Norwegian). Frostating lagmansrett.
  4. ^ Helle, Knut, ed. (2009-02-13). "Magnus 6 Håkonsson Lagabøte". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  5. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget
    . Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  6. ^ Petersen, E. Ladewig, ed. (1970–74). "Diplomatarium Norvegicum" (in Norwegian). Oslo: Bokcentralen.

Literature

Related reading

  • Munch, Peter Andreas (1846). Norges gamle Love indtil 1387 (in Norwegian). Christiania: Chr. Gröndahl.

External links

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