. Social Scandinavia in the Viking age. h, the chairsrwere richly carved, usually,,,,with animal designs or with ^figures of favorite deities or -heroes. One seat mentionedin the sagas had upon itsback a representation of thegod Thor, with his hammerin his hand. The most im-portant seat in the stofa be-longed to the master of thehouse, and was kno^vn as the4iigh seat. It seems tohave always stood at theright of the person enteringthe hall, and was distin-guished from the other fur-niture by two high-seat pillars standing in front ofit, on which was carved the image of some god, usuallyThor. Th
. Social Scandinavia in the Viking age. h, the chairsrwere richly carved, usually,,,,with animal designs or with ^figures of favorite deities or -heroes. One seat mentionedin the sagas had upon itsback a representation of thegod Thor, with his hammerin his hand. The most im-portant seat in the stofa be-longed to the master of thehouse, and was kno^vn as the4iigh seat. It seems tohave always stood at theright of the person enteringthe hall, and was distin-guished from the other fur-niture by two high-seat pillars standing in front ofit, on which was carved the image of some god, usuallyThor. These pillars seem to have been entirely sep-arate from the chair, and were of considerable height,sometimes extending to the roof. The seat of the mas-ter was perhaps very little, if any, handsomer than othersin the room; it was the position it occupied in the roomand the fact that it belonged to the head of the housethat made the high seat, the seat of honor.^ The seat 2 Baatli, Nordiskt Forntidslif, 136; Weinhold, Altnordisches Lehen,. Fig. 10. Carved Chair, BackView. (From Du Chaillus Vik-ing Age. Copyright 1889. Pub-lished by Charles Scribners Sons.) 146 SOCIAL SCANDINAVIA IN THE VIKING AGE
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