ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Norwegian institutions in greater detail. It reflects on what the evidence suggests regarding the presence and development of processes of collective organisation and the impacts of royal power across ad 400–1500. In the Borgarthing province, there were three rural lawthings, one in each of the two law districts and a top-level lawthing. Haugathing is the most well-known royal inauguration site in the Borgarthing law province. The sources testify to four hierarchical administrative levels in the Borgarthing law province in the Middle Ages serving different geographic scales and holding different functions: the law province was divided into syslur and then skipreiour and these were further divided into quarters or fjoroungar. The main assembly of the Gulathing law province was the Gulathing, which has received much popular and scholarly attention. The Gulathing Law and its corresponding law province are assumed to have been established no later than the early 10th century.
