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Thing (assembly)
A
thing
(
Old Norse
,
Old English
and
Icelandic
:
þing
;
German
,
Dutch
:
ding
; modern
Scandinavian languages
:
ting
) was the governing assembly of a
Germanic
society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by
lawspeakers
. Its meeting-place was called a
thingstead
.
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