Gabby Bell
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Tuesday 18 August 2026 21:38:55 GMT
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Einar Bjørnsson Enge🇮🇸🇳🇴 :
Iceland has the Alþing (allting) Norway has the Storting (bigthing)
2026-08-19 08:56:03
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Cato Oksnes :
nja Tinganes (825afther christ) on the faeronese island is older. Tynwald(900 ac) on man of isle is also older. Gulating is also older. but fourth oldest isnt bad either.
2026-08-19 17:02:42
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wegga34 :
Second oldest, the Faroese parlement is older by 30-105 years older
2026-08-19 16:00:03
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Boldevin :
The norwegian parliament is now called Stortinget aka The Big Thing
2026-08-19 08:33:52
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Filip :
Ting, originally meant Time, or a specific timen. ergo a meeting place/gathering. The specific Ting he mentions in the video is the Allting, the AllThing. for even longer period local smaller Ting was normal
2026-08-19 15:36:21
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Simdri G🇮🇸 :
On Saturday will be culture night in Reykjavík and among the events is Sagnavaka (20:00) at Ægir bar. There we’ll do some of the old dances and sing the old songs. All museums in Reykjavík will have free entry also. Please come by
2026-08-19 09:05:50
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TimawaViking :
It's weird to hear it being directly translated into english. In Denmark we still kept the word for our parliament. We call it 'Folketinget' which directly translated is 'The People Thing'
2026-08-19 08:17:03
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Aníta 🇮🇸 :
the g in þing is a hard g not a almost silent one
2026-08-19 09:47:39
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Sam :
We still use the ting word in swedish ie. Tingsrätten aka courthouse aka the ”ting” in regards to rights
2026-08-18 21:50:10
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Art Factory Party :
welcome to our country 🥰
2026-08-19 00:06:30
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Kristmundur Magnússo :
welcome
2026-08-19 15:33:32
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La5me :
living not so far from "Frostating" in Norway. it's considered the oldest of the things (before iceland). about the year 400 -600 ac it started. only it wasn't for a whole country but for a region. (not a historian here, correct me if I am wrong)
2026-08-19 03:45:17
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Óskar Árnason :
I think your story is mixing Sturlungaöld with the founding of Alþingi, there's a 200 year difference. The representative system set up over the years ended up with Sturlungar amassing voting power that lead to pledging to Norway.
2026-08-19 00:26:28
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Daniel Storesund ☭✊️ :
I don't know Islandic or old Norse, but if you pronounce the word like TING, no "h" sound, it's litteraly what we still use as "parlament" in Norwegian, so i suspect thats closer to the original word than "thing" lovely video as always, so fun to see you travel around to these places
2026-08-19 07:54:51
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Michał Piotrak :
Roman Senate? Greek stuff??
2026-08-18 22:06:54
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Calle Andersson 🇸🇪 :
How come English translate “ting” as in “parliament”, “assembly”, “meeting” or “(criminal) court” to “thing”? 🤔 (Yes, “ting” has multiple meaning across the Nordics)
2026-08-18 23:43:42
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Az-ur the Ice and fire lord :
icelander here, the word þing is pronounced as thing-k
2026-08-19 08:08:29
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masks :
yooo my country!🇮🇸
2026-08-18 21:43:13
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aronpetur :
if you are still in iceland there will be small viking reenactment event in Akureyri from the 28th to 30th of august
2026-08-18 22:19:04
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Magnus :
How is this the oldest Ting in the world? The Ting in the Faroe Islands dates back to 825AD and is still being used today.
2026-08-19 16:04:27
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KÁES :
wasnt the faroese one older?
2026-08-19 10:45:30
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halladall1 :
The Danish parlament is still called that. Folketinget - The People's Thing
2026-08-19 16:15:19
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SallyTheWolf :
how to say þingvellir to a english speaker th-ing ve-(say L with a click)llir
2026-08-18 21:45:24
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roger humlestøl :
Norwegian here too pick on the topic 🤔 mostly guessing, but abit educated guessing 🤓 considering viking raiding culture and general population origin (modern-day Scandinavia), i find it kinda strange that the first recording of a ting was that late 🤔 i know the norsemen was settling inn all over Scandinavia a good couple of decades urlyer. for instance modern-day Trondheim used to be the capital of norway for a long time 🤔 not disagreeing with any of your facts here, but wonder what your knowledge on urlyer history of the Nordic 😗 many funny stories 😂👌
2026-08-18 22:57:17
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