The descendants of Ingólfur who dominated the region of southwest Iceland had become the most powerful family in the country, and other chieftains felt a need for a general assembly to limit their power.
== Zgodovina ===== Ustanovitev parlamenta ===V skladu s knjigo Landnámabók ("Knjiga o naselitvi"), se je naselitev Islandije je začela leta leta 874, ko je norveški poglavar Ingólfur Arnarson postal prvi stalni norveški naseljenec na otoku.