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The Icelandic parliament (Alþing) convened here from 930 AD until 1798. The flagpole marks the site of the lawspeaker´s stone podium. (The podium has since subsided.) The law-speaker recited the law to the people orally from the podum, before the law was written down. Disputes, marriages, land contracts, and new laws were settled here, and it was here that Iceland chose Christianity as its national religion in 1000 AD.