stitchwhich | Drat! Can't find the Saga

There is an Icelandic (Viking era) story about a serving woman who owns a wonderful set of bed linens and blankets and who makes everyone promise to honor her wish to have them buried with her when she dies... her mistress decided not to honor the servingwoman's wishes and keeps the linens, and a series of horrible things start to happen (the servingwoman's coffin won't mount on the horse they want to use to take it to her family's burial area, at one house along the route, the homeowner refuses to honor the burial party as he should with feasting and comfortable sleeping and is awakened by noise in his hall only to come out and find that the men are being served by an unknown woman, who is cooking food for them - it turns out to be the servantwoman. That wakes him slam up and he accedes to custom and honors the burial party as he should...

does any of this sound familiar? I'd like to brush up on the story so I can scare little kiddies with it at the demo Austlandr are doing next month.