"- "Egils Saga", Chapter LX (60)

The Icelandic "Vatnsdæla saga" records that when Finbogi failed to show up for a hólmganga (duel), Jökul raised a nithing pole against Finbogi for his cowardice by carving out a human head which was placed on a post with magic runes, killing a mare, and then placing the post into the mare's breast with the head facing towards Finbogi's dwelling.In Iceland there are modern examples of a nithing pole being raised.