Tags: Poem.
Austrfararvísur East Journey Verses is a skaldic poem composed by the Icelandic skald Sigvatr Þórðarson in the 1020s[citation needed]. Sigvatr was visiting the Norwegian king Olaf and was sent on a delegation to the Swedish king Olaf.The poem relates that somewhere in Sweden probably Värmland they arrived at a place called Hof. The door was shut and the people were hostile. They said that the farm was holy and that they were not welcome.