Hrafn Hængsson (
Old Norse: ;
Modern Icelandic
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: ) was a tenth-century
Icelandic jurist and
goði. He was the son of
Ketil Haeng,
one of the early settlers of
Iceland, and his wife Ingunn.
Hrafn was one of the main parties responsible for the unification of Iceland under the
Althing and was then appointed
lawspeaker at the first Althing in 930 CE. He served in that capacity until 949.
Resources
* Byock, Jesse;
Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power'. University of California Press (1988)
10th-century Icelandic people
Goðar
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