Fróðá (Frodis-water)

Fróðá is the farm of Snorri goði's sister Thuríð, struck by the most elaborate haunting in all the sagas. After a string of deaths at the steading, the dead refuse to stay buried: drowned men and dead servants walk back into the hall night after night, dripping seawater, sitting by the fires, crowding the living from their own benches in a slow, eerie domestic infestation. The hauntings are ended only by a remarkable remedy — a formal 'door-court', a lawsuit served on the dead themselves, summoning each revenant to depart. Fróðá is the saga's image of the haunted home — the western farm overrun by its own returning dead, the setting of the corpus's strangest ghost story, where the drowned come quietly home to sit by the fire until the law itself orders them to leave.