Eidsivathing

“Her stod Eidsivatinget”, marking the old Thing square in Eidsvoll

The Eidsivathing was in the Middle Ages one of the four regional thinge in Norway . The Thing meetings were held in Eidsvoll , northeast of Oslo .

In the early days, Eidsivathing was the people's assembly and the court for the people around Lake Mjøsa . The Thing's area of responsibility later included Raumafylke ( Romerike ), Heinafylke ( Hedmark ) and Hadafylke ( Hadeland ), and even later Østerdalen and Gudbrandsdalen .

The other three Norwegian things were the gulathing , the borgarthing and the frostathing .

annotation

↑ Klaus Böldl, Andreas Vollmer, Julia Zernack (eds.): Isländer Sagas 1 , Frankfurt 2011, S. Fischer, ISBN 978-3-10-007622-9 , notes on page 846, paragraph 56

literature

Matthias Tveitane : Eidsivathing. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 6, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1986, ISBN 3-11-010468-7 , pp. 553-555.

[1] Klaus Böldl, Andreas Vollmer, Julia Zernack (eds.): Isländer Sagas 1 , Frankfurt 2011, S. Fischer, ISBN 978-3-10-007622-9 , notes on page 846, paragraph 56