þing-völlr

þing-völlr
m. [cp. the Manx Tynwald, Shetland Tingwall]:—the ‘parliament-field,’ the place where a þing sat, it answers in sense to mod. ‘parliament-house’ but parliaments and courts of old time were held in the open air on a plain, hence the name; áðr sól er komin á þingvöll, Grág. i. 33; þá er næstir búa þingvellinum, 115, Fb. i. 191; þat er forn réttr, at únnaðr ór fylkjum öllum skolo göra vébönd hér á þingvelli, N. G. L. i. 127.
II. a local name, Landn., Sturl.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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