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Lecture tour: Lagabøte and the National Law Jubilee

Lecture tour about Magnus Lagabøte and the National Law Jubilee at five different locations in Vesterålen, Ofoten and Lofoten!

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How is a manuscript made?

Creating a medieval manuscript, or codex, is a long process that takes place in several steps.

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Magnus the Lawmender and his legacy

Magnus the Lawmender’s legacy can be assessed based on how it was written about him. As, for example, in an anonymous skald poem from ca. 1280.

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Attending the Thing – The Settlement of a Conflict

Heimskringla tells of a settled conflict during a thing meeting at Brurberget in Vágar, at the beginning of the 11th century.

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The National Law of 1274

The National Law is a law book that applied to the whole country, just as Norway’s laws do today. It rested on a long and solid legal tradition, in which the thing was central.

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The Vágabok

In the year 1282, an outcry is heard in Vágar. Baron Bjarne Erlingsson of Giske has just stood at the thing at Brurberget and said that the Vágabok must be taken out of use. Now it is the National Law that applies.

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The wedding in Lofoten in the Middle Ages

The wedding in Lofoten in the Middle Ages – Read about the dowry Ingebjørg brought with her into her marriage to Torleiv in 1335

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Magnus Lagabøte

King Magnus 6. Håkonsson, later Lagabøte, was king of Norway in the Middle Ages, and was the king behind the Land Act of 1274.