Vitterfolk

Pesta is the personification of the black death. She's often an old woman who carries a broom and a rake and spreads the disease from village to village. If she uses the rake, some will live. If she uses the broom, then everyone dies.

“She licked the rime-stones, salty with frost; the first day came hair, the second a head, the third day the whole man — Búri, fair and mighty, first of the Æsir, awoke from the ice.”

"A taste of the forbidden. According to Nordic folklore, consuming the broth of a white snake grants the power to see what is hidden."

"Still, Tuvstarr sits and gazes down into the water"