mission · 1000
In the year 1000 the Icelandic Althing, at the brink of civil division between the old gods and the new faith, put the choice to the lawspeaker Thorgeir — a pagan. After a day and night under his cloak he ruled: one law for all, and that law Christian. The whole commonwealth passed to the faith by assembly.
A commonwealth converts by arbitration — one law, one faith, by decision of the Althing.