lagasetning
nafnorðkvenkynlaga-setning
legislation, (), i. 33, v. 102, 124; this word requires explanation,—in old writers it means the constitution, the fundamental laws or political constitution of a commonwealth; as Ari, the historian, says, ‘frá Íslands bygð, frá landnáms-mönnum ok lagasetning,’ of the settlement of Iceland, of her settlers and her political constitution, (); where lagasetning refers to the institution of the alþing, and the other events related in 2 and 3; so also, ritaði hann ( Ari) mest í upphafi sinnar bókar um Íslands bygð (the settlement), ok lagasetning (constitution), (), referring to the constitutional laws of Ulfljot recorded in 2 of the Icelander Book; lagasetning here exactly answers to what Konrad Maurer, by a term, calls ‘die entstehung des Isländisches staates.’ So also of the laws of king Hakon the Good ( the remarks þing), lagasetning Hákonar konungs, … hann (the king) var maðr stórvitr, ok lagði mikinn hug á lagasetning, hann ‘setti’ Gulaþings-lög …, i. 135 ( i. 31): again, in 227 it answers to the word legislation (of the laws of Sweyn, the son of Alfifa), and so 24. It is to be borne in mind that ‘lög’ has a double sense, law in a strict sense, and in a local-political sense = a ‘law-community,’ legally constituted state, nearly answering to πόλις.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- pref.preface.
- ch.chapter.
- viz.namely.
- mod.modern.
- cp.compare.
- s. v.sub voce.
- Gr.Greek.
- Jb.Jóns-bók. (B. III.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Íb.Íslendinga-bók. (D. I.)
- Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)