þingfararkaup (ON) noun

Fee paid by householders with specified minimum assets that entitled them to certain rights at the þing ‘assembly’. Also a compensation paid annually by householders failing to attend the alþingi ‘general assembly’, and conversely a compensation paid to those attending it. In Jó, travel expenses for a lögréttumaðr ‘man of the Law Council’.

assembly attendance dues OIce Grg Klþ 1, 8 Þsþ 23, 35 Vís 89, 110 Arþ 127 Feþ 166 Hrs 234, 235 Misc 251 Tíg 255
OIce Jó Þfb 2 Sg 1
OIce KRA 1, 14 Refs:

Gerhold 2002, 60; Helgi Þorláksson 2011, 143–46; Jónsson and Boulhosa, 2011, 158–60; KLNM s.v. þingfararkaup