The Marvels at Froda The following tale has all the direct simplicity and truth to human nature which mark the ancient literature of Iceland.

Defoe might have envied the profusion of detail; "The large chest with a lock, and the small box," and so on.

Some of the minor portents, such as the disturbances among inanimate objects, and the appearance of a glow of mysterious light, "the Fate Moon," recur in modern tales of haunted houses.

The combination of Christian exorcism, then a novelty in Iceland, with legal proceedings against the ghosts, is especially characteristic.
THE MARVELS AT FRODA {273} During that summer in which Christianity was adopted by law in Iceland (1000 A.D.), it happened that a ship came to land at Snowfell Ness.
It was a Dublin vessel, manned by Irish and Hebrideans, with few Norsemen on board.

They lay there for a long time during the summer, waiting for a favourable wind to sail into the firth, and many people from the Ness went down to trade with them.