Poverty And Winter Wind

The Merman's Children, Book Three, VIII.

Haakon Arnorsson's steading:

clay floor;

peat fire in a pit;

blubber-burning lamps;

a single room;

thirty people;

Haakon's shut-bed;

straw pallets on benches or the floor;

smoked meat and fish hanging from the rafters;

flatbread on poles;

"...wind...blowing winter in." (p. 165);

carved high seats;

a bronze crucifix;

cedar chests;

stained, rotted tapestries;

racked weapons and tools;

weak, sour beer in silver goblets;

"...wind piping around walls and snuffing at the door." (p. 166);

waning fire;

shadows;

dank, gnawing chill.

Tauno thinks that the family and retainers have moved from a hall to this hovel.

A detailed description and two more references to wind that I had missed.