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The Farm Owner’s Seat<br />

The position of the farm owner’s seat has probably always been important and the<br />

archaeological record indicates that some time during the Late Iron Age it became<br />

possible for the hall owner to choose between different positions for this seat and<br />

perhaps also different kinds of seats, perhaps in accordance with the two terms<br />

connected with the it, undvegi and hásæti (cf. Birkeli 1932). The new short-end or<br />

corner positions are probably a development of the original situation which, in the<br />

narrow houses of the Early Iron Age, was a side-aisle position, perhaps a balanced<br />

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