lock-bed

Updated: May 7, 2025

The bonder said it was no boon to see him, for he was unlike any shape of man; "but good methinks is every hour that thou art here." Now the day goes by, and when men should go to sleep Grettir would not put off his clothes, but lay down on the seat over against the bonder's lock-bed.

- The Story of Grettir the Strong

Then they rode over Reekdale, and over the neck of land to Skorradale, and so up through the wood in the neighbourhood of the farmstead of Water-Nook, where they got off their horses, as it was very late in the evening. I am told Helgi has at most times very few men with him, but that he is of all men the wariest of himself, and sleeps on a strongly made lock-bed."

- Laxdæla Saga: Translated from the Icelandic