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==="Gray Goose Laws" in Iceland===

The oldest collection of [[Icelandic Commonwealth|Medieval Icelandic]] laws is known as ''"Grágás"''; i.e., the ''[[Gray Goose Laws]]''. Various etymologies were offered for that name:
* The fact that the laws were written with a goose quill;
* The fact that the laws were bound in goose skin;
* Because of the age of the laws — it was then believed that geese lived longer than other birds.<ref>Boulhosa, Patricia Press. "The Law of Óláfr inn Helgi." In ''Icelanders and the Kings of Norway: Mediaeval Sagas and Legal Texts''. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2005.</ref><ref>Byock, Jesse L., ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A4S6Bnw3HnkC Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power]'', Berkeley: University of California, 1990</ref><ref>Byock, Jesse L. "Grágás: ''The 'Grey Goose' Law'' in ''Viking Age Iceland'' London: Penguin, 2001.</ref>