Grímur Ingjaldsson … once took his infant son with him wrapped in a sealskin. While out fishing he caught a marbendill, a humanlike creature that lived in the bottom of the sea and was believed to have the gift of prophesy. Grímur asked the creature where he would eventually settle. The marbendill answered:
There is no need to predict your future, but the infant in the sealskin will settle where your mare, Skálm, lies down with her burden.
— From The Sorcerer’s Cottage, a brochure from the Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft
(Yes, I am researching a possible Iceland novel. Why do you ask?)
