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2. The English Holy Thing is, in theory, subservient to the Great Holy Thing in Trondheim, but in practice it often exerts greater influence on the day-to-day lives of those under its jurisdiction. In theory, too, all members of the Holy Thing had an equal voice. However, with the selection of Hakon Whitebeard as speaker for the Thing during the crisis of Aethelred's reign, established a new tradition. The Speaker of the Thing, or just Speaker, would gain in power during the Reformation until he became the religious leader of the Submissive English.

Return to Albion in Descent.