þinglami (OSw) noun

Literally ‘hindrance to the assembly’. This word is used in two different ways. On the one hand, in VmL and DL, it refers to the similar situation covered by þingfall (q.v.), which is to be found in HL, SdmL and UL, and is translated in a number of different ways. Reference here is to the failure of a prescribed assembly to take place, as a quorum of its members is not present. This failure was the subject of a fine and the word þinglami came to refer to the fine (or tax) itself (as in the Roden, the historical region along the coast of Uppland) A similar transfer of meaning applied to leþungslami (q.v.). Thus in UL þinglami refers to a tax payable by those inhabitants of the Roden area, who would normally be obliged to attend the local assembly (e.g. adult male householders). Wessén considers that Schlyter’s interpretation of this as an amount payable as a fine when the levy was raised because the assembly was then not held is unlikely, since those called up to the levy are elsewhere stated to be free of obligation to attend the assembly. He thinks that it is more likely that it was a tax payable on an annual basis by the inhabitants of the Roden district, where an assembly was not held at all, in addition to other taxes mentioned in the same passage of UL.

failure of thing assembly (to make a quorum) OSw VmL Rb
failure to make a quorum OSw DL Rb
thing assembly tax OSw UL Kgb Refs:

KLNM s.v.v. skatter, smörskatt, ting; Lexikon des Mittelalters, s.v. ding; Schlyter 1877, s.v.v. leþungslami, þingfall, þinglami; SL DL, 108 note 4; SL UL, 60−61 notes 51, 52