Hrolf Kraki, 34, 40; Jomsvikinga Saga, 5, 22; Volsunga, 3; Half’s Saga, 12; Egil, 8. Footnote 187: The _sal_ is also called _Disarsal_, a building for sacrifices to the Disir. Footnote 188: Cf. also Heimskringla. Footnote 189: “The land-owner shall pay the value of the land at the _Karldyr_ (men’s door).” Gragas ii. Footnote 190: Bodyguard. Footnote 191: Cf. also Njala, 117. Footnote 192: The banqueting halls were called _veitsluskali_. Footnote 193: Njala 120; Fornmanna Sögur. Footnote 194: The _skali_ is often called the drinking or the sleeping _skali_. Orkneyinga, 18, 70, 115; Gisli Sursson, 29; Droplaugarsona Saga, 18, 28; Fornmanna Sögur, i. 288, 292; Kormak, 58; Fostbrœdra, 13; Njala, 78; Gunnlaug, XI. The _eldhús_ meant a hall or chief room, where fires were kept. Gisli Sursson, 14, 15, 97; Eyrbyggja, 98; Laxdæla, 54. Footnote 195: _Dyngja_—cf. Egil, 159; Gisli Sursson, 15; Njal, 66; Kormak, 10; Bjorn Hitdk, 68. _Skemma_—Fœreyinga, 259; Gisli Sursson, 7; Kormak, 228; Islendinga Sögur, ii. 28. _Herbergi_ seems to have been a general term for any kind of room. Footnote 196: Harald Hardradi, 70. Footnote 197: Fœreyinga, 41; Islendinga Sögur, ii. 250; Fostbrœdra, 164. A _bad-stofa_, or bath room, is mentioned. Eyrbyggja, Forn. Sögur, xiii. In St. Olaf’s Saga, 82, the _stofa_ is said to be in the loft. Footnote 198: A house of the latter kind was also called _málstofa_ (speaking-house) (Harald Hardradi’s Saga, c. 45). Footnote 199: Ingi’s Saga, 28; Egil’s Saga, 236; Njal,, 114, 199; Fms., 85; Ynglinga, St. Olaf, 116. Footnote 200: Magnus the Good’s Saga, c. 13. Footnote 201: Yngl. Saga, c. 14. Footnote 202: Ynglinga Saga, 34. CHAPTER XVI. FEASTS, ENTERTAINMENTS. Conviviality of the Northmen—Recital of poems and sagas at the feasts—Music—Arrangement of the hall—Splendour of the table decorations—Plainness of the food—Order of precedence—The custom of drawing lots for places of honour—Entertainment of the guest by high-born maidens—Presents given at the end of the feast—Heavy drinking—Viking customs—Manners at table—General hospitality of the people—Waiting at table. In reading the Sagas we are particularly struck at the number of feasts which marked the life of the Northmen. Every event the least above the common was celebrated in this fashion, a fashion which has by no means disappeared from among the Norsemen’s descendants. On the occasion of such feasts, the houses and halls were prepared in the most elaborate manner; tapestry and embroidered cloths were hung on the walls, and spread over the benches. Poems and Sagas were recited, and music was also occasionally introduced. Among other stringed instruments, the Sagas mention as used at feasts, were, besides the harp, the _fidla_ (probably fiddle) and _gigja_ (also probably a kind of fiddle).