1000 the issue of religion reaches a crisis point at the Alþingi. The Christian faction and the pagan faction do not want to share the same laws and the Christians choose a new lawspeaker for themselves, Hallr á Síðu. He reaches an agreement with Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði, the pagan lawspeaker, that Þorgeirr will find a compromise acceptable to everyone. Þorgeirr goes to his camp and stays under a skin for the remainder of the day and the following night. The day after he gives a speech at Lögberg. He says that the only way to maintain peace in the country is for everyone to keep to the same laws and the same religion. Before reciting the compromise he has come up with Þorgeirr gets his audience to pledge themselves to a solution with one set of laws for all the country. Þorgeirr then decrees that everyone not already baptized must convert to Christianity. Three concessions are made to the pagans. The old laws allowing exposure of newborn children will remain in force. The old laws on the eating of horsemeat will remain in force. People can make pagan sacrifices in private. Some years later those concessions are abolished. 8–10. Bishops and lawspeakers in Iceland Genealogy The genealogy at the end of the book was a langfedgatal. References Finnur Jónsson (editor) (1930). Are hinn fróþe Þorgilsson : Íslendingabók. København. Jørgensen & co.s Bogtrykkeri. Jakob Benediktsson (editor) (1968). Íslenzk fornrit I : Íslendingabók : Landnámabók. Reykjavík. Hið íslenzka fornritafélag. External links Íslendingabók; Kristni saga: The Book of Icelanders; The Story of the Conversion, trans. by Siân Grønlie, Viking Society for Northern Research, Text Series, 18 (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2006), pp. 3–14, http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk Guðni Jónsson's edition of Íslendingabók Íslendingabók website, English summary Medieval Iceland Kings' sagas Norse settlements in Greenland