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lawspeaker
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Lawspeaker
A
lawspeaker
(
Swedish
:
lagman
,
Old Swedish
:
laghmaþer
or
laghman
,
Danish
:
lagmand
,
Norwegian
:
lagmann
,
Icelandic
:
lög(sögu)maður
,
Faroese
:
løgmaður
,
Finnish
:
laamanni
) is a unique
Scandinavian
legal office. It has its basis in a common Germanic
oral tradition
, where wise men were asked to recite the law, but it was only in Scandinavia that the function evolved into an office. Two of the most famous lawspeakers are
Snorri Sturluson
and
Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker
.
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