The settlers' polity ruled by assembly and law-speaker rather than king — Europe's most famous medieval republic and the society of the sagas.
Submitted to the Norwegian crown by the Old Covenant of 1262-64 after the Sturlung civil wars.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Icelandic Commonwealth — the shape you scrub through changes in 930 · 1050.
Jon Johannesson's classic scholarly history of the Icelandic Free State's society and institutions from settlement to its fall in 1262.