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Nithing Pole (Cursed Pole)

Old Norse: níðstang

A nithing pole consisted of a long, wooden pole with a recently cut horse head at the end, and at times with the skin of the horse laid over the pole. The nithing pole was directed towards the enemy and target of the curse. The curse could be carved in runes on the pole.

The Icelandic Vatnsdæla saga records that when Finbogi failed to show up for a hólmganga (duel).

Jökul raised a nithing pole against Finbogi for his cowardice by carving out a human head which was placed on a post with magic runes, killing a mare, and then placing the post into the mare's breast with the head facing towards Finbogi's dwelling.

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Ulf Bjalfason 

• Old Norse: Úlfr Bjálfason
• Better known as: Kveldulf
(Old Norse for Night Wolf)

He was born around 805 in Norway and was a renowned hersir and landowner in ninth century Sogn, Norway.

Children:
• Thorolf Kveldulfsson
• Skalla-Grímr

He is a main character in the early chapters of Egils saga and appears in the Landnámabók and other Icelandic sources. Kveldulf is described as an ulfhéðinn, a shape-shifter (hamrammr), or a berserker.

When Thorolf was killed by King Harald's men, Kveldulf was overcome with grief and "took to his bed."

After having a request for compensation refused by the king, Kveldulf and his son Skalla-Grímr took revenge by killing Thorolf's killers before fleeing Norway for Iceland.

On the way, exhausted by his "berserker fit", the elderly Kveldulf died. Skallagrim built his farm at Borg, near where Kveldulf's coffin washed ashore.

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Place: Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸
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