Notes

Recently a lamb with two heads was born at Kodvig Sorensson's place. Even our eldest don't remember ever seeing as strange a thing as that. Is it two beasts or one? Where's a thing's essence lie, its brain or its heart? Don't rightly know, personally. But I do know this - when nature takes to spitting out oddities like that, it means trouble for the lives of men sooner rather than later.

The freakish lamb (lambs?) didn't live long. Let out a last howl at dawn, then the old sheephand burned the body till it was fine ash, and scattered it into the sea.