The horse's head he turned inwards to the mainland; but on the pole he cut runes, expressing the whole form of curse."A notable example occurred in 2006, when a farmer in Bíldudalur, claiming direct descent from Egill Skallagrímsson, raised a pole with a calf's head attached against another local man with a note attached to the effect that he would not rest until the man was either outlawed or dead.[4] Improvised nithing poles with dried cod heads were used during the April 4, 2016 demonstration against Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.A sign on the pole cited that the government had been allegedly treating predominantly female working classes poorly, for example, by lowering the pay of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.It was set nearby the property of the director of the Icelandic Equestrian Association, and the target of the nithing pole may be a local new-age-group Sólsetrið[7][8] for being disruptive to the neighborhood.
Saxo Grammaticus: Danmarks Krønike (Gesta Danorum) - tr. Frederik Winkel Horn (Danish) - illust. Louis Moe (1898)
