hof

...Iceland is a society that was created by immigrants from Scandinavia, mainly from western Norway, from the end of the 9th century. They organized a religious community around the temple of a powerful farmer called a hof, and such powerful people were called goði (priests). These powerful people gathered together to organize local assemblies called heraðsthing (meaning "assembly of the herað (region)"). Then, around 930, when the undeveloped areas were basically wiped out by population growth, they gathered together in the island-wide assembly called Althing, and organized the whole island into a system of assemblies at various levels. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…アイスランドは9世紀末からノルウェー西部地方をはじめとするスカンジナビアからの移住者のつくった社会である。彼らは有力農民の神殿hofを中心に祭祀共同体を組織し，かかる有力者はゴジgoði(司祭)とよばれた。このような有力者は集まって地域的集会heraðsthing(〈ヘラズherað(地域)の集会〉の意)を組織し，さらに人口増によって未開地が基本的に消滅した930年ころに，全島レベルの集会＝アルシングAlthingに結集し，全島をさまざまなレベルの集会の体系に組織した。…

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