A conservative nonprofit has donated Ten Commandments posters to nearly every public school system in Louisiana. School officials say the posters will go up in classrooms if a federal appeals court allows it.
No, that was lawspeakers or lawmen, wise old men who had memorised the law and who would recite it at annual thing assemblies. Norse society was still operating on customary law and the idea of someone having the gall to create a brand new legal code would probably be alien to them.
Lawman, or løgmaður, is still used as the official title of the Faroese prime minister.
I think the old norse had those guys
No, that was lawspeakers or lawmen, wise old men who had memorised the law and who would recite it at annual thing assemblies. Norse society was still operating on customary law and the idea of someone having the gall to create a brand new legal code would probably be alien to them.
Lawman, or løgmaður, is still used as the official title of the Faroese prime minister.