These dark Icelandic eyes, woman, have led me far along the hard road to the shining ring. Mead-goddess, my foot has gone full boldly on ancient ways unknown to your husband. 

  - Early eleventh-century Icelandic poet Sigvatr Þórðarson. Translated by Judith Jesch in her book Women in the Viking Age (Woodbridge, Boydell, 1991), 155.