Þuríðr of Fróðá

Thuríð of Fróðá is Snorri goði's sister and the mistress of the farm where the most elaborate haunting in all the sagas unfolds. After a series of deaths at her steading of Fróðá, the dead will not stay buried: drowned men and dead servants walk back into the hall night after night, sitting by the fires, dripping seawater, crowding the living from their own benches in a slow, eerie infestation of the household by its own dead. 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, after which they rise one by one and go. Thuríð is the saga's image of the woman at the centre of the uncanny — the mistress whose hall is overrun by the returning dead, around whom the corpus's strangest, most domestic ghost story plays out: not monsters on the moor but the drowned and the dead come quietly home to sit by the fire.