Citations:thing

Noun: thing: "an assembly" (historical, Icelandic)

 * 1974, Jón Jóhannesson, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga, translated by Haraldur Bessason, page 46:
 * In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]
 * 1974, Jakob Benediktsson, Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis, in Saga Íslands, quoted in 1988 by Jesse L. Byock in Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 85:
 * The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
 * 1988, Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power, page 59:
 * All Icelandic things were skap-thing, meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.
 * 1989, Theodore M. Andersson, William Ian Miller, Law and literature in medieval Iceland: Ljósvetninga saga and Valla-Ljóts saga, page 131:
 * Ofeig had come to the thing with fifty men, while Tjorvi and his bothers came from the west with a hundred. They had been at the thing for one night.

Noun: thing: "an assembly" (historical, Norwegian)

 * 1935, Laurence M. Larson (translator), The Earliest Norwegian Laws: being the Gulathing Law and the Frostathing Law, page 223:
 * [...] also in such cases as men agree with the handclasp in the presence of two witnesses [to refer to the law thing], and if these witnesses are produced.

Noun: thing: "an assembly" (historical, Norwegian/Shetlandic)

 * 1963 August 2, The Scots Law Times, volume 1, page 361:
 * [...] is attributed to the Norwegian King Magnus Hakonsson (known as the Law-mender), and came into force in about 1274. The decisions of the law-thing and the circuit courts in Shetland subsequent to 1274 were mainly founded upon the said legal code.

Noun: thing: "an assembly" (historical, Swedish)

 * 1917, George T. Flom (translator and editor), a translation of Óláfs saga hins helga, in Scandinavian Studies and Notes, volume 4, page 240:
 * Each of the provinces has its own lawthing and in many ways its own law. Over each lawthing in a law-man; he exercises authority mainly with the yeomen, for that becomes law which he pronounces. But if king or earl or bishop passes through the country and holds thing with the yeomen, the lawman answers on behalf of the yeomen.
 * 1932, W. Heffer (translator or editor), The History of St Olav, in the Heimskringla (original by Snorri Sturluson), page 309:
 * But it is worse that you break common judgments which are adjudged at the Upsala thing. [...] See to it now, my lord, how many of your chiefs [...] have ridden away and gone out into the lordship and there are holding things with the folk.

Noun: thing: "an assembly" (historical, Germanic)

 * 1902, P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye, The religion of the Teutons, page 130:
 * The combat has been put into the foreground; the last judgment resembles a Teutonic thing, and the sins to be expiated are those of the poet's own time.
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Noun: Thing: "an assembly" (historical, Icelandic)

 * 1861, George W. Dasent (translator), The Story of Burnt Njal, or, Life in Iceland, page 22:
 * She was not slow in getting herself ready, and then they all rode to the Thing. Unna went to her father's booth, and he gave her a hearty welcome, [...]
 * 1889, Samuel Laing (translator), The Heimskringla (original by Snorri Sturluson), volume 2, page 3:
 * They assembled then a numerous Thing, and Sigurd the earl recommended Hakon's cause to the Thing,* and proposed him to the bondes as king.
 * *This reference to a Thing appears from the saga to have been necessary, whatever the claim from hereditary right by succession may have been to the kingdom.
 * 1997, Egil's Saga (translated by Bernard Scudder in The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001), page 168:
 * Before Thorstein left home, he and Asgerd decided to take Arinbjorn's gift, the silk cloak, out of Egil's chest, and Thorstein wore it to the Thing.

Noun: Thing: "an assembly" (historical, Norwegian/Orcadian)

 * 1894, George W. Dasent (translator), The Orkneyingers Saga, Icelandic Sagas, volume 3:
 * But when the earl held a Thing, then Thorkell spoke on behalf of the freemen, told the need of the men, and bade the earl spare his people.

Noun: Thing: "an assembly" (historical, Swedish)

 * 1917, George T. Flom (translator and editor), a translation of Óláfs saga hins helga, in Scandinavian Studies and Notes, volume 4, page 243:
 * And he remained with Thorgny and rode with him to Upsala Thing. There was a great assemblage of people there and King Olaf was there with his courtiers. The first day of the Thing King Olaf sat in his chair and his guard stood about him. On the other side of the thingstead sat Earl Ragnvald [...]

Noun: Thing: "an assembly" (historical, Germanic)

 * 1988, Patrick J. Geary, Chapter II, "The Barbarian World in the Sixth Century", 'Germanic Culture', Before France and Germany: the creation and transformation of the Merovingian world, page 55
 * The supreme political unit of the tribe was the assembly of its free male warriors. This assembly, called the "Thing", served as the court of highest instance for dealing with individuals who had broken fundamental elements of the tribal pact, an occasion to meet and to reinforce ties among members, and, often, an assembly which preceded a military campaign.

Noun: (Great) Thing: "a specific assembly" (modern, Norwegian)

 * 1885, Charlotte Sophia Sidgwick, The Story of Norway, page 180:
 * The Parliament was sitting in the Great Hall of Christiania, and it called itself the Storthing, or Great Thing. The hall belonged to the new University, which was five years old now, and flourishing.

Noun: (Law) Thing: "a specific assembly" (modern, Faroese)

 * 2004, Sjúrður Skaale, The Right to National Self-Determination: the Faroe Islands and Greenland, page 46:
 * 1928   The Executive Committee of the Law Thing is created to assume executive powers from the Governor.