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Hásæti also ǫndvegi (from the Old Norse: high seat), was the "seat of honor" of a Viking leader who overlaid the rest, lifted in a kind of long bench facing south and occupying the central square of his estate, in the main hall (veizlustofur). Opposite was the seat of honor for the guests, on an immediately lower level, where they sat friends or guests of noble birth, (óœðra ǫndvegi, or "lower seat"). The different ranks of importance were manifested according to the place occupied by the guests, those of higher rank sat near the caudillo, and those of lower rank nearer the door. On the flanks of the seat were fixed the sacred posts that supported the high seat, called öndvegissúlur, which were decorated with pagan motifs and secured with metal pins, reginnaglar ("sacred pegs").

In fact it was not a chair, not a throne, rather a place on a raised platform and it has not yet been clarified what concrete importance it had, but there is no doubt that the "seat of honor" was relevant. The Nordic sagas are full of and even in the colonization of Iceland, the hásæti sacred posts had a decisive role in deciding where a settlement could be founded, throwing them before the settlers landed and leaving them drifting until would arrive at the coast, where the haciendas would be built, as a response to the will of the gods. Gylfaginning According to Gylfaginning, when the gods created Asgard, they built twelve thrones (sæti) for them and an additional one (hásæti) raised to Odin. It was in these seats that they talked and made decisions.

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