“He knows alone who has wandered wide, and far has fared on the way, what manner of mind a man doth own who is wise of head and heart.”
~Hávamál 18, Bray
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“Sá einn veit
er víða ratar
ok hefr fjölð of farit,
hverju geði
stýrir gumna hverr,
sá er vitandi er vits.”

Various Alemannic and Norse artifacts depict men in strange stances, which could have been part of a demarcation ritual described in the Kormáks Saga;

“It was the law of the holmgang that the hide should be five ells long, with loops at its corners. Into these should be driven certain pins with heads to them, called tjosnur. He who made it ready should go to the pins in such a manner that he could see sky between his legs, holding the lobes of his ears and speaking the forewords used in the rite called “The Sacrifice of the tjosnur.””
~Kormáks Saga
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