Special legislation, Gulatingslova (the Gulating law), was drafted to aid the discussions. While the Gulating was not a democratic assembly in the modern...
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The Gulating Court of Appeal (Norwegian: Gulating lagmannsrett) is one of six courts of appeal in the Kingdom of Norway. The Court is located in the city...
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Gulating is an artistic project with serious political aims. On 4 June 2005 Western Norway was declared an independent state, "Republikken Gulating"...
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often places for public religious rites. According to Norway's Law of the Gulating, only free men of full age could participate in the assembly. According...
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inhabited for millennia. The area was made up of many petty kingdoms under the Gulating during the Middle Ages. The northern part was then known as Firdafylke...
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three other ancient regional assemblies, the Borgarting, Eidsivating, and Gulating, were joined into a single jurisdiction during the late 13th century, when...
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geographic regions that each had its own legislative assembly or Thing, such as Gulating (Western Norway) and Frostating (Trøndelag). The second-order subdivision...
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assemblies, these higher level regional things (Borgarting, Eidsivating, Gulating and Frostating), by King Magnus VI. He managed to circumvent the traditional...
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practice was labelled heretical and explicitly forbidden in the Norwegian Gulating law codes. Landvættir have been variously connected by scholars to other...
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Oslo Eidsivating Court of Appeal in Hamar Agder Court of Appeal in Skien Gulating Court of Appeal in Bergen Frostating Court of Appeal in Trondheim Hålogaland...
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considered to be the place where Norway's west-coastal Vikings met for the Gulating, a governing body. The area along the Gulafjorden called Flolid (just east...
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Bjørnafjorden, Samnanger, and Bergen. Cases from this court could be appealed to Gulating Court of Appeal. The court was a court of first instance. Its judicial...
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memorial. It was not the oldest law, which are the Eidsivating law and the Gulating law. Later came the Borgathinglaw of Olaf II (1015–1028) but the Frostathing...
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Telemark and Agder (except for Sirdal Municipality which falls under the Gulating Court of Appeal). These areas constitute the Agder judicial district (Norwegian:...
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square kilometre (2,550/sq mi). This area has an ancient history, since the Gulating met in this area in the years 900—1300, creating laws which governed most...
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municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Sør-Rogaland District Court and the Gulating Court of Appeal. The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Stavanger is made...
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mentioned in the Icelandic Grágás and the Norwegian Frostating laws and Gulating laws, in which it is phrased in much the same way. Unmarried women in general...
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the Sogn region). These both were formed in the Middle Ages under the Gulating government. They were merged with Hordafylke (now Hordaland) and Sunnmørafylke...
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illustrated in the Icelandic Grágás and the Norwegian Frostating laws and Gulating laws. Most free Viking women were housewives, and a woman's standing in...
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the leidang which was first established by King Håkon the Good at the Gulating in 955, although variants of the Leidang had at that time already existed...
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based in Trondheim, serves the counties of Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag. Gulating, based in Bergen, serves the counties of Vestland, Rogaland and Sirdal...
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century, the by then archaic regional assemblies, the Frostating, the Gulating, the Eidsivating and the Borgarting, were amalgamated and the corpus of...
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there were 900 and 1800 masonry churches respectively. Frostathing Law and Gulating law rules about "corner posts" show that the stave church was the standard...
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centuries, being first mentioned directly in the Faroese part of the Norwegian Gulating-law dating back to 1298. Given the isolation of the Faroe Islands in the...
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Kvinnherad, Stord, Sveio, and Tysnes. The court is subordinate to the Gulating Court of Appeal. The court is led by a chief judge (sorenskriver) and several...
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and Stavanger District Court. All of these courts are subordinate to the Gulating Court of Appeal district based in Bergen. Rogaland County has a total of...
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municipality was under the jurisdiction of the Ryfylke District Court and the Gulating Court of Appeal. The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Forsand was made...
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Stord, Sveio, and Tysnes. Cases from this court could be appealed to Gulating Court of Appeal. The court was a court of first instance. Its judicial...
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the 7th century, the area was made up of many petty kingdoms under the Gulating and was known as Hordafylke from around the year 900. In the early 16th...
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was an important border mark between the district of Sunnmøre (and the Gulating assembly) and the district of Romsdal (and the Frostating assembly). It...
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