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There are several accounts of large feasting mead halls constructed for important feasts when Scandinavian royalty was invited.

According to a legend recorded by Snorri Sturluson, in the Heimskringla, the late 9th-century Värmlandish chieftain Áki invited both the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair and the Swedish king Eric Eymundsson, but had the Norwegian king stay in the newly constructed and sumptuous one, because he was the youngest one of the kings and the one who had the greatest prospects.

The older Swedish king, on the other hand, had to stay in the old feasting hall.

The Swedish king was so humiliated that he killed Áki.