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ÞINGBITR -- ÞINGMOT. 737

þing-bítr, m. a nickname, Fas. i. 314.

þing-boð, n. [Swed. ting-kafle], an 'assembly-despatch,' in the shape of a stick, cross, or axe; þar fór um landit þ. nökkut, at allir menn skyldi til þings koma, Fms. i. 149; skera (upp) þ., Ó.H. 105, 121, 151, N.G.L. i. 63; stefna þing, ok hafa upp hafit þ. fyrir fimmt, Gþl. 451, Js. 41; kross eðr þ, skal eigi yngri maðr bera enn tólf vettra, N.G.L. i. 139.

þing-borinn, part. presented at an assembly; hvalr banvænn af þingbornu skoti, Grág. ii. 371.

þing-bók, f. a protocol, (mod.)

þing-brekka, u, f. the 'parliament-brink,' a law term; at all old places where parliament was held there was a 'brink' or high place where the law was read, speeches made, or proclamations and declarations issued to the assembled people (the Tynwald in the Isle of Man is just such a spot), this place was called the 'thing-brink' (at the alþing it was called the Lögberg or 'Hill of laws'); lýsa í þingbrekku, ... stefna um í þingbrekku til dóms, Grág. (Kb.) i. 99; ganga í þingbrekku ok nefna vátta, 107 hann skal til segja þrjú vór í þingbrekku, svá at meiri hlutr þing-heyjanda heyri, ii. 158; Egill Skallagrímsson gekk í þingbrekku um daginn eptir ... þá stóð Egill upp ok mælti svá ..., Eg. 734; þá gengr Glúmr í þingbrekku ok nefnir vátta, Glúm. 387; at þinglausnum í þingbrekku stóð Þorsteinn upp ok mælti, Þorst. Síðu H. 174; leiða í brekku, to lead to the brink or hill of laws, i.e. to proclaim; ef þræli er frelsi gefit ok er hann eigi leiddr í lög eða brekku, Grág. i. 358.

þing-býr, m. a house or town where a meeting is held, D.N. i. 486.

þing-dagr, m. a 'meeting-day,' a day on which a þing is held, Gþl. 107; stefna e-m þingdag, to summon, Mar.

þing-deila, u, f. a lawsuit in a public court, Hrafn. 12, Fb. i. 443.

þing-deild, f. = þingdeila, Nj. 86, Ld. 298.

þing-fastr, adj. belonging to a certain county (þing), Grág. i. 159.

þing-ferð, f. a journey to a þing. Eg. 765.

þing-festi, f. a law term, domicile in or allegiance to a 'þing-community. In the Icel. Commonwealth every franklin had to declare his allegiance to one of the priests, and to say of what community he was a member; yet the word was political rather than strictly geographical, for the 'þings,' like the 'godords,' were not strictly geographical divisions, Grág. i. 164: hence the phrase, spyrja at þingfesti e-s. to speer after a man's þingfesti, call on him to declare it, as also ganga við þ. e-s, to acknowledge one's þ. (of the priest), Grág. (Kb.) i. 3, 43, 132, Nj. 87; því at einu er rétt at hafa þingfesti í öðrum fjórðungi heldr enn er maðr býr, ef goða er þat lofat þeim at lögbergi at taka þriðjungs-mann útan-fjórðungs, Grág. i. 165, which last passage is evidently a 'novella.'

þing-fólk, n. an assembly, = þingheimr, Hkr. i. 261.

þing-færr, adj. able to go to the þing; þá var Gizurr biskup eigi þ., Sturl. i. 204 (Bs. i. 69); þ. hestr, Grág. i. 52; eiga þingfært, referring to outlaws (sekr maðr) who were not allowed to appear at a þing (cp. vargr í véum), Grág. ii. 78.

þing-för, f. = þingferð, Grág. i. 46, ii. 34; um þingfarir, at the season of alþing, Grett. 136 A (um þing Ed.) COMPDS: þingfarar-balkr, m. the section of law referring to the parliament, Jb. 5, Gþl. þingfarar-fé, n. = þingfararkaup, Gþl. 11. þingfarar-kaup, n. a fee for travelling to the parliament, as a law term, being a tax levied from every franklin, out of which those were paid who had to go up to the parliament on public business, whether as jurors, judges, or otherwise; every 'þing-heyjandi' received his fee from this source, the amount being regulated by the distance from the place of the assembly, or by the number of day's-journeys each man had to travel, Grág. i. 24, cp. Jb. 52. A census was taken (about A.D. 1100) in Iceland of all the franklins who had to pay the þing-tax, which shewed that there were at that time 4,500 cottagers and proletarians not included, Íb. 17; a man who paid no such tax could neither sit as 'neighbour' or judge, Grág. i. 50; ef bóndi á fé minna, en hann eigi þingfarar-kaupi at gegna, ok ..., K.Þ.K. 4. For Norway see Gþl. Þingfarab. ch. 2.

þing-ganga, u, f. = þingför, N.G.L. i. 62, Js. 39.

þing-gengt, n. adj., in the phrase, eiga þ. = eiga þingfært, Js. 39.

þing-haugr, m. a 'þing-how,' hill of laws, a Norse local name, D.N. v. 957, perh. = þingbrekka.

þing-há, f. (also spelt þingá; see há) :-- a þing-district or community, originally a shire having a meeting or parliament of its own, the word is esp. freq. in Norway (in Icel. abbreviated into 'þing'), Hkr. i. 147; konungr fór í allar þinghár ok kristnaði þar allan lýð, Ó.H. 102; krafði leiðangrs um ena nörðstu þinghá, 198; hann fær ór þinghá sinni sjau tigi manna, Hrafn. 11; á Hálogalandi í enni nyrztu þinghá, Fms. viii. 183; herboð fór á sjau nóttum frá hinum synnzta vita í hina nörztu þ. á Hálogalandi, Fagrsk. 20, D.N. passim; þinghá thus chiefly refers to the old small þing-communities, almost synonymous to fylki. þinghá-maðr, m. = þingheyjandi, Grág. i. 51 (see há).

þing-heimr, m. the assembly at a þing; lagði svá nær at allr þ. myndi berjask, Nj. 163, Eg. 765; ef þingheimrinn berðisk, Ísl. ii. 172, Fbr. 145, Al. 156.

þing-helgi, f. the consecrated precincts or boundary of a public assembly; nú er sén ferð Tungu-Odds, ríðr Þórðr þá í móti honum, ok vill eigi at hann; nái þinghelginni, Ísl. ii. 172; at flokkr Hafliða væri kominn á Völluna efri ok ætlaði at bíða þar ok verja vígi alla þinghelgina, Sturl. i. 38. 2. the ceremony of hallowing an assembly at the first meeting (cp. helga þing); goði sá er þinghelgi á þar, hann skal þar þing helga enn fyrsta aptan, Grág. i. 100; goði sé búinn at ganga þá til þ., to proceed to the consecration of the þing, K.Þ.K. 96.

þing-hestr, m. a horse used on a journey to the þing, Grág. i. 441.

þing-heyjandi, part. a 'þing-performer,' the law term for any person who visits a þing, on a summons to perform any public duty: every priest had to appear with a certain retinue of franklins, in order that there should always be present a sufficient number of neighbours, judges, witnesses, etc.; in return for such duty the persons attending received a fee, and were exempted from paying the þing-tax (þingfararkaup), which was defrayed by the franklins who stayed at home, Grág. i. 24, 46, 116, (Kb.) ii. 158; a priest had a right, at the spring meeting, to call on the ninth part of his liege-franklins to follow him to the alþing, Grág. i. 116. 2. 'Ecclesiastes' is rendered by þingheyjandi, Greg;. 71.

þing-hringr, m. the assembly standing in a circle, N.G.L. i. 80.

þing-hús, n. a house in which a meeting is held, Fb. ii. 49 (where it is an error for hús-þing, Ó.H. 45, l.c.); the word is rare in old writers, because parliaments of old were held in the open air: the word is esp. used of the Jewish synagogue, Greg. 48, Mar.: also for the Roman praetorium or a judgment-hall, John xviii. 28; so also in mod. usage, cp. Jb. 21.

þing-höttr, m. a nickname, Ann. Nord. Oldk. 171.

þing-kallandi, part. a herald, 655 iv. 2.

þing-kaup, n. = þingfarar-kaup, Grág. ii. 42.

þing-kostr, m. = þingveizla, Eg. 733, v.l.

þing-lag, n. the public standard of value, as fixed or proclaimed at a 'þing;' kyr ok ær at þinglagi því sem þar er í því héraði, K.Þ.K. 172 (cp. fjár-lag, verð-lag); þinglags-eyrir, Grág. (Kb.) ii. 246; þinglags-hestr, a horse of average value, D.I. i. 203,

þing-lausnir, f. pl. the dissolution of a parliament; skal hann eigi fara af þingi fyrir þinglausnir, Grág. i. 25, Nj. 113; at þinglausnum, Þorst. Síðu H. 174; ok þegar at þinglausnum dró gékk hann í búðir, Lv. 56; þinglausna-dagr, the last day of the parliament, Grág. i. 6, Sturl. ii. 98 C.

þing-logi, a, m. a law term, a 'meeting-belier,' one who breaks his engagement to attend a meeting or court when summoned (cp. A.S. wærloga = a truce-breaker): also used metaph., hann varð ok eigi þinglogi, he was no engagement-breaker, Fms. xi. 22, Sturl. i. 142 (in a verse); ok er at nefndum degi kom þá varð jarl eigi þ., 48; varða hrönnum höfn þingloga, i.e. the haven belied them not, they got safe into harbour, Hkv. 1. 29 (Bugge).

þing-lok, n. pl. = þinglausnir, Eg. 353.

þing-lýðr, m. [Germ. dingleute], = þingheimr, D.N. ii. 282.

þing-maðr, m. a person present at an assembly, a member of parliament; þeir gengu til lögbergs ok aðrir þingmenn, Nj. 15; þingmenn ok dómarinn, Gþl. 172, Bs. i. 755 (the members of the alþing), and passim (see þingfesti); þingmanna dagleið, a day's journey for a man travelling to the parliament, Jb. 10. 2. a liegeman belonging to this or that þing-community; a franklin is said to be the 'þingmaðr' of such and such a priest (goði); þar sátu þingmenn Rúnólfs í hverju húsi, Bs. i. 20; hann var þ. Styrmis frá Ásgeirsá, Band, (begin.); ek spyr goða alla hverr sér kenni N.M. at þingmanni eða þriðjungs-manni, Grág. (Kb.) i. 40; þeir vóru þingmenn Þorgeirs goða, Lv. (begin.); Guðmundr (the priest) var því vanr, at ríða norðr um héruð á várin ok hitta þingmenn sína, ok ráða um héraðs-stjórn, 17; þingmenn Geitis, Vápn. 19; sendir Geitir orð þingmönnum sínum, 15, Eg. 724, passim; ef goði vill segja þingmann sinn brott or þingi við sik, Grág. i. 165, Nj. 261, Sturl. ii. 35, passim; see þingfesti. þingmanna-leið, f. a day's journey for a þingmaðr, see the remarks s.v. þingför and þingfarar-kaup; but used in Icel. as a general measure of distance, answering to about twenty Engl. miles; distances on land are still measured so in Icel., e.g. a mountain is a þingmanna-leið milli bygða, cp. Hrafn. 11; see the map of Icel., where one 'þingmanna-leið' (or Icel. mile) is put at five geographical miles.

þing-mark, n. the boundary or precincts of a public assembly (= þing-helgi); þá eru þeir af þingi er þeir eru ór þingmarki, Grág. i. 25; goð: skal kveða á þingmörk hver eru, ok skal hann svá þing helga sem alþingi, ok skal hann kveða á hve þing heitir, 100; gefa nafn þinginu ok kveða á þingmörkin, 116; allar sakir sem í þingmarki görask skal lýsa í þingbrekku, ii. 96; með þessum orðum ok þingmörkum helguðu laugfeðgar hans alþingi, Landn. (App.) 2. the boundary of a district or jurisdiction; sá goði er þing á í enu sama þingmarki, Grág. i. 164; ef maðr tekr hjú ór öðru þingmarki, 460.

þing-mál, n. a case presented at a public court, N.G.L. i. 90.

Þing-Máríu-messa, u, f. the 'Þing-Mary's-mass,' = the 2nd July, from the alþing being held at that time, Icel. Almanack.

Þingmenn, m. pl., or Þingmanna-lið, n. the Thingmen, the king's house-carles in England, Orkn. ch. 37, Hkr. ii. 15.

þing-mót, n. a public meeting, MS. 656 B. 2.