The Rime Barrow

The burial ground above Windcut Hold's upper terrace, where the Rimeward holds lay their honoured dead, and where a long-unwatched grave has begun to swing like its living kin.

Every hold in the fjord sends its dead up to the terrace above Windcut Hold, and every hold used to keep a turn watching the ground the way the mainland holds once watched the Wind-Cut Pass, until the years after the crossing, when the watch thinned to a formality and then to nothing, because nothing had ever needed watching before. The barrow is cut the old way, drystone chambers stepped into the slope, each sealed with the dead's own arms by the grave-right and left that way until a living kin says otherwise. What woke first, and why, no hold-elder will say for certain. Only that the watch should never have thinned, and that the ground is answering for it now.