"thingman" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008, The Earliest Norwegian Laws: Being the Gulathing Law and the Frostathing Law, translated from Old Norwegian by Laurence Marcellus Larson, page 63",
          "text": "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."
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        "One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt."
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          "ref": "1989, Law and literature in medieval Iceland: Ljósvetninga saga and Valla-Ljóts saga, Theodore Murdock Andersson, William Ian Miller, page 8:",
          "text": "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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        "(One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler)."
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        "(historical, usually in the plural) (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler)."
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          "text": "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."
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