Tynwald - The Parliament of the Isle of Man

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kaupang



http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/dig_reports_04.shtml

Købing
http://www.derglasperlenmacher.de/literatur.html

Copen-hagen
Kaupmannahofn
Kaupmannahöfn
Kjøbenhavn

Köbenhöfn.

Hafnia
Hafniaensis
Haven
Harbour

Längre fram i tiden begagnades namnet Kaupmannahafn ("köpmännens
hamn"), hvaraf det nuv. namnet är bildadt.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nfbo/0362.html

market - place + harbour

hunter gathers then villagers in forest clearings
slash and burn agriculture

villages grew from farms
subdivided amongst brothers
about 20 minutes walk from each other
(see norwegion farm names -tun -ton)

and later vikings

all needed to meet and trade in spring and autumn
craftsmen travelled and traded
and settled where they traded under the protection of strongman a chieftan or a hofding

Harald Høfding



if you have a hof court

you had a democratic ting

tingpladsen

the best preserved



Tynwald



with a law speaker who memorised all the laws
in the age of runes



Snorri Sturluson (1179 - September 23, 1241)
was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was twice law-speaker ...


actually Danish because all was under that crown
logmaðr or lögsögu-maðr, law Speaker, or Speaker-at-Law

law.man
lawyer


Thing in old english AKA anglo-saxon

http://www.ethnologue.com/
deals with modern languages




http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Denmark

Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian, Danish-Swedish, Danish-Bokmal, Danish.


http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=738

all mutually understandable with varying degrees of effort


http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=FRS
but this was Danmark to 1864



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have a nice Sunday