In 1274, King Magnus VI 'the Law-mender' issued Norway's first national law code, the Landslov, which would replace the ancient regional assemblies like the Gulating. This episode traces how the Gulating, established centuries earlier under Harald Fairhair, evolved from a Viking-age open-air parliament into a formal institution with its own laws and procedures, and then quietly lost its legislative power to the crown. We explore the Gulating's oral traditions, the role of the law-speaker, major cases and feuds it adjudicated, the shift from oral to written law, and the surprising legacy of the Gulating's legal principles in modern Norwegian democracy. Along the way, we consider what was gained and what was lost when Norway traded local justice for national uniformity.
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