New power elite emerged in medieval Iceland as the island became Norwegian

University of Gothenburg ^ | May 16, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

Gyre and ice ping.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

“...the wealthy became even wealthier at the expense of the rest of the population,’ says Beck, (yet another socialist from Sweden).

[Controlling Legal Authority]

Hidden People’s fault.

[decimon]

“...the wealthy became even wealthier at the expense of the rest of the population,’ says Beck, (yet another socialist from Sweden).

Beck may well be socialist but the system described (like the rest of Europe, an aristocracy) was likely as described.

[Jonty30]

Medieval European history is probably among the most interesting.

[ColoCdn]

Read later. Thanks for posting

[kabumpo]

I agree.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Rebelbase]

“Medieval European history is probably among the most interesting.”

There are some great online Western Civ videos at this link.

http://learner.org/resources/series58.html

You might enjoy:

18. The Age of Charlemagne
Charlemagne revived hopes for a new empire in Western Europe.

VOD19. The Middle Ages
Amid invasion and civil disorder, a military aristocracy dominated the kingdoms of Europe.

VOD20. The Feudal Order
Bishop, knight, and peasant exemplified some of the social divisions of the year 1000 A.D.

VOD21. Common Life in the Middle Ages
Famine, disease, and short life expectancies were the conditions that shaped medieval beliefs.

VOD22. Cities and Cathedrals of the Middle Ages
The great churches embodied the material and spiritual ambitions of the age.

VOD23. The Late Middle Ages
Two hundred years of war and plague debilitated Europe.

[AndrewB]

I didn’t know they had a king.
I thought they were an autonomous collective.

[SunkenCiv]

You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes—

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Opening that in a new tab.

[Rebelbase]

Most welcome. My 82 year old dad turned me on to that last week.

[wildbill]

How did the local hereditary “chiefs” system differ from an aristocracy since most of them wound up as the aristocracy.

Sounds to me that the Norwegians simply coopted what was there and regularized it as a Norwegian governmental system.

Ya gotta watch those doctoral candidates, always looking for a slight divergence they can claim is a new discovery.

[FrdmLvr]

In those days the king did take from the people.

[Fractal Trader]

Here's the true Icelandic Power Elite:

[Lazamataz]

DENNIS! There’s some lovely filth down here!

[Fractal Trader]

Here's the true Icelandic Power Elite:

[decimon]

I didn’t know they had a king.
I thought they were an autonomous collective.

Maybe a little of this and a little of that. Some anarchocapitalists have said they were libertarian but that's always seemed wishful thinking to me.