the Story of Olaf the Stout and the Blind King, Hrorec); murderers lurk spear-armed at the threshold, sides, as in the Icelandic Sagas; a queen hides a spear-head in her gown, and murders her husband (cf.
Olaf Tryggvason's Life).

Godfred was murdered by his servant (and Ynglingatal).
"Burglary" .-- The crafty discovery of the robber of the treasury by Hadding is a variant of the world-old Rhampsinitos tale, but less elaborate, possibly abridged and cut down by Saxo, and reduced to a mere moral example in favour of the goldenness of silence and the danger of letting the tongue feed the gallows.
Among other disgraceful acts, that make the offender infamous, but do not necessarily involve public action:-- "Manslaughter in Breach of Hospitality" .-- Probably any gross breach of hospitality was disreputable and highly abhorred, but "guest-slaughter" is especially mentioned.

The ethical question as to whether a man should slay his guest or forego his just vengeance was often a "probleme du jour" in the archaic times to which these traditions witness.

Ingeld prefers his vengeance, but Thuriswend, in the Lay cited by Paul the Deacon, chooses to protect his guest.

Heremod slew his messmates in his wrath, and went forth alone into exile.