Meaning of thingman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.
   historical, plural-normally
2. (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler).
   historical, plural-normally

Examples

“Now if the debtor pleads that "I do not know the law but I will comply with whatever the thingmen think lawful," he [the creditor] must summon him before the thing after five nights, at the shortest, and five times five at the longest, if he knows when the thing is to meet; […] it is then the duty of the thingmen to decide the matter and to award him his money.”

“A thingman and chieftain owed each other duties of support. […] The ideal is well stated by Eyjolf to his own thingmen as he requests their support in his struggles against the Ljosvetning kin group […]”

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