--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, LM <lavrans@...> wrote:

>

> The only real reference I've ever seen is in the tetralogy "Kristen
> Lavransdottar" by Norwegian author Sigrid Undset.

I must get round to reading more of that book sometime. Apart from
being brilliantly written, it has lots of great period detail, like
the dangers of escaped farm animals (which is something that crops up
in Vápnfirðinga saga and the Guta lagh law code of Gotland). It
quotes from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka at one point. Even the quaint,
but ominous, detail about not letting young children sleep near to big
drunk men, for fear of a rolling-over tragedy, is mentioned in the
Guta lagh.