Ölver, a húskarl (free servant) of the chief Thórir, and Egil with twelve men when on a journey came to Bárd, a steward of King Eirik’s, in Atley. “Bárd said: ‘Now we will put the tables for you, I know you will like to go to sleep, you are tired.’ Ölver liked this well. Then tables were set and food given to them, bread and butter, and large bowls filled with curds were set forward. Bárd said: ‘It is a great pity that there is no ale here, so I cannot entertain you as well as I would like. You must help yourselves to what there is.’ They were very thirsty, and swallowed the curds in large draughts. Then Bárd had buttermilk brought in, and they drank it” (Egil’s Saga, c. 43). “King Olaf and all his men stayed with his father, Sigurd Syr, awhile. Sigurd gave them as fare on alternate days fish and milk, meat and ale” (St. Olaf’s Saga, c. 33). Great care was taken at the feasts to seat guests according to their proper rank, as precedence was thought very much of. [Illustration: Fig. 1131.—Iron knife, ⅜ real size, in a mound with burnt bones, an iron comb, fragments of two urns destroyed by fire, &c.—Norway. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1132.—Sharpening stone made fast with bauds of bronze, ½ real size, found in a large tumulus with a shield boss of iron, several arrow-heads of iron, a large fibula of bronze, &c.—Norway. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1133.—Knife of iron, ½ real size, found in a stone cist, with a double-edged iron sword, two spear-heads, &c., and a skeleton.—Cairn, Öland. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1134. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1135. ] Scabbard of bronze, ⅔ real size, found in a tumulus mound inside a skeleton, with iron knife, ½ real size, Rikirde, Götland. [Illustration: Fig. 1136. End of horn. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1137. ] Bronze drinking-horn, the rim ornamented with a band of silver with figures in repoussé work. [Illustration: Fig. 1138.—Ornament of bronze for a drinking-horn, found with a little gold bead.—Götland. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1139.—Fragment of drinking horn of bronze.—Norway. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1140.—Spoon of Elk horn, ⅔ real size, found in the black earth in Björko, Sweden. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1141. ] [Illustration: Fig. 1142. ] Silver ornament for knife (real size), found with a bronze kettle containing burnt bones, a gold ring, and two small silver ornaments.—Romsdal, Norway. [Illustration: Fig. 1143.—Ornamentation drinking-horn of bronze, found with two other fragments of drinking horns, &c. ]