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In an early-eleventh-century poem, an Icelandic traveller describes being turned away from a farmhouse on a journey towards Sweden.
The turnip at the National Museum of Ireland is made of plaster. Its carved face is the work of a museum artist, based on a lantern remembered from County Donegal.
In a Norwegian story recorded in 1909, Sterke Nils watched a man struggle up through the waters of Svartetjørn in Telemark.
In the spring of 1893, Martin Finseth, Nels Jevning, Andrew Malmberg and John Wallerbeck travelled north from Minnesota to inspect Canadian farmland.
When neighbours opened Þórólfr Halt-Foot’s grave, they found a corpse that had neither decayed nor become any easier to move.
An Icelandic ghost story recorded in nineteenth-century Canada begins with a hired man who insists he will take his employer's daughter to Christmas mass.