ABSTRACT
May the peace and blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ, the intercession of our Lady, the holy Mary, and the holy King Olaf and all the saints be with all of us people of the Gulathing district, now and forever. And we shall have our general assembly (lǫgþing) every twelve months at the proper Gulathing assembly site on the eve of St Botolph’s day [June 17]. Everyone appointed to attend the assembly who has no necessity is to meet there. And at the mid-Lent assembly, a landed man (lendr maðr) or sheriff (sýslumaðr) or steward (ármaðr) or their lawful representative shall have nominated as many people from each county (fylki) as outlined here in the following chapter, and they are to name those people who employ farm workers and they consider most discerning, and they must affirm this with an oath. And upon arriving at the Gulathing assembly, they shall swear that oath on the first day an oath can be sworn, following this formula:
For this, he places his hand on a book, and he calls God as his witness, that he has named those men to the Gulathing assembly whom he considered most discerning according to his conscience, and he did not take anything else into account, and he will always nominate thus while he remains in this office.
And no one needs to swear this oath repeatedly after this time.