Frosta, Trondelag, Summer, AD 957
The field at Frosta bustled with life. Tents crowded the finger of land that poked into the Trondheimsfjord, their canvas walls and banners flapping in the midsummer breeze. Around the tents, children ran while their parents cooked, toiled, hawked wares, or shared news from their various districts. The smell of smoked meat and fish hung thickly in the air. East of the tents, a group of boys and young men played a game of stickball known as knattleiker, while the young women looked on, whispering, pointing, and cheering.
Hakon surveyed the scene with satisfaction. This gathering was a supra-thing, or law assembly for the far northern fylke of the realm. This particular supra-thing was known as the Frosta Thing on account of the Frosta-field on which it to
