And this graph is the one that gets quoted
During the Viking Age, there was a man called Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker. The Lawspeaker’s office made him spokesmen for Swedes who owned their own farms—while not ‘citizens’ in our sense, they were a class of ordinary free people whose interests sometimes differed from those of their kings and lords. One such king, for reasons of pride, tried to draw Þorgnýr’s people into an unwanted war. This resulted in an outcry, and the king held a public meeting to persuade the people to go along. Þorgnýr spoke at this meeting, and reminded the King that seven previous kings had been drowned in a nearby well when they proved resistant to the advice of the people, and should reconsider his war.
Sheesh, I hope they pull up the drowned man quick like. Folks can't get a bucket of water to wash the well is so choked with dead bodies. And it's starting to smell foul. That can't be good. That Lawspeaker don't fool around. But wouldn't it be better to hang the errant king from a handy tree limb?
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