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HALLS AND BUILDINGS. 



" ' Make a song, Scald, about that which is drawn on the 

 hangings.' Thorfinn looked at them, and saw that Sigurd slay- 

 ing Fafnir was embroidered on them " (Flateyjarbok iii.). 



Fig. 1092. The Church-door of Versus, Vestergb'tland. Representntion of Sigurd 

 slaying the serpent Fafnir: Runic inscription, Asmutr A'urthi Dyrr = Asmund 

 made the door ; and svastien. 



The halls were used for feasts, 1 and were built east and west, 

 the long walls running north and south ; along the latter were 

 the benches, and in the middle of each of these were the lidsteti 



1 The banqueting halls were called veitsluskali. 



