... for no particular reason, I am minded to mention Skarphethin in _Njals
Saga_.
Dunno why -- the name simply floated across my precious mind.
Off all the Icelandic mental boys -- think Starkather -- he has to be the
worst.
Patrick would no doubt thoroughly disapprove, but when they peeled him from
the wall in the wake of the Burning, he had a cross stapled to his chest.
They took religion seriously in them days, so they did.
Nox (J.)
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