The Black Death comes; art by Theodor Kittelsen
The plague (which arrived in Norway in September of 1349) was often personified as an old, wandering hag with a broom and a rake. She would wander the countryside and pass through villages; if she swept the place with her broom, it meant everyone there would die, but if she only used her rake, it meant that some of the people there would live.
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