thingmen

Latour points out how the Ding has been around for centuries, referring to "thingmen" dating back from old northern peoples.

Masters of Media, New Media MA Amsterdam 2008

Indeed the key issue here is that the Godhar WERE the state (politicians, priests, and lawyers all wrapped up into one), and the thingmen essentially made revokable pledges to the various Godhar in exchange for support or protection.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 2010

Indeed the key issue here is that the Godhar WERE the state politicians, priests, and lawyers all wrapped up into one, and the thingmen essentially made revokable pledges to the various Godhar in exchange for support or protection.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 2010

And they told me that Thorkel's fleet had sailed northward on Swein's death, and that the thingmen whom he had left in the place had gone to London.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

The red cloaks of Cnut's thingmen were on bridge and walls and fort alike, and no few of them in either stronghold.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

There was some change, too, in the ways of the thingmen, for it was not their plan here to make themselves hated and feared as in East Anglia.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

Then the last doubt of trouble to come passed from me, for it was plain that these thingmen looked for help presently.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

Norsemen who came to release them from the tyranny of the thingmen, now and then a face that I knew would start, as it were, upon me from among a little crowd.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

Colchester, for it seemed to the townsfolk that peace had surely come at last, and with it relief from the oppression of the thingmen.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

Eadmund for gathering a great levy, and keeping it together by marching through the Danelagh, and calling on the Danish thingmen, in the towns they yet held, to surrender.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884