halegerda

Updated: August 19, 2026

Such a chamber might be called muchos; it was private from the hall though under the same roof. Gunnar himself, however, slept with his wife, Halegerda, in an upper chamber; his mother, who lived with him, also had a room upstairs. Under a hide they lay; and when men raised up the hide, after the fire had done its work, "they were unburnt under it.

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age