lawspeaker
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lawspeaker
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From law + speaker; compare lawman.
noun lawspeakers
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An official in Scandinavia whose duties included memorizing laws as well as presiding over, and reciting the laws at, regional Things or the Althing.
In every legal district there is a lawspeaker, and he has the greatest power among the farmers, because whatever he decides to be the law stands.[…]But whenever there is a conflict in their laws, then the Uppsala laws prevail; and all the other lawspeakers have a lower rank than the one who function
Similar: lawman
Talk about this word "lawspeaker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lawspeaker. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. lawspeaker. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lawspeaker "lawspeaker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lawspeaker.Cite this
@misc{lawspeaker_2026,
title = {lawspeaker},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lawspeaker},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
