Icelanders in the Viking Age: The People of the Sagas by William R. Short

Author:William R. Short [Short, William R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2010-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

The saddles shown in the Bayeux tapestry have high cantles and pommels and are placed far forward on the horse’s back. Viking people may have used similar saddles.

A number of other bridges in Iceland are mentioned in the sagas. Some of these might seem to have been natural stone bridges, such as the bridge at Bjarnarfoss, across the Hvítá river in the west, which Illugi and Eysteinn Eiðsson used. The saga author says the bridge stood for a long time, but it likely had fallen by the time the saga was written.165 A well-known folktale gives a different story, saying the natural stone bridge was intentionally destroyed after two children fell from the bridge into the maelstrom below and perished.166

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