Thing (assembly)
![The Icelandic Althing in session, as imagined in the 1890s by British artist W. G. Collingwood.[4]](/uploads/202501/13/Law_speaker3743.jpg)
A thing (Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing; German, Dutch: ding; modern Scandinavian languages: ting) was the governing assembly of a Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by lawspeakers. Its meeting-place was called a thingstead.