Anarchism (Dutch: words of warning)
Sigvaldi Eggertsson wrote:
> Jonathan Ball > wrote in message thlink.net>...
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>>Sigvaldi Eggertsson wrote:
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>>>Rat & Swan > wrote in message >...
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>>>>>Make no mistake: Iceland in the Commonwealth era had laws, and the
>>>>>enforcement of them was state-like. What they had that distinguished it
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>>>>>from the modern state is that you could "resign" from your local
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>>>>>chieftan's group, and sign up with another, without changing place of
>>>>>residence.
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>>>>No, there were no laws as we use the term, nor was enforcement of them
>>>>"state-like."
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>>>The laws of the old Alžingi
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>>What is the third letter of that word, and how is it
>>pronounced?
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> It is a letter known as "Žorn" (Thorn) and is usually pronounced "Th"
> in english. It was in existance in Old english and words that begin
> with Th in english (They, Their etc) were originally written using
> that letter.
Žank you.
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