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Originally Posted by tore
Are you referring to Icelandic Commonwealth? They had a parliament of sorts, Alþingi, which was started in 930 and lasted until 1262 where (afaik) disputes could be settled and agreements reached between different chieftains and so on.
I just visited Þingvellir myself (the place the parliament was founded) on vacation  |
I'm not too well-read about the Icelandic system, although the main point is that they didn't have a governmental monopoly of order, which is to say that it was an anarchic system.
The Decline and Fall of Private Law in Iceland