Anseth

Anseth (Hurmumol: Anset, "sorrow"; Hurmu Norse: Anseð; Lakkvian: Ansed) is the southernmost of the Holy Lakes of Hurmu. It is the only saline lake among the Holy Lakes. In Hurmu mythology, Anseth is a lake associated with mourning and death. People come here on pilgrimages to mourn their dead ones. Historically, many Hurmu people would bring out their dead to the lake and allow the lake to bury them. Due to the salinity in the waters, the bodies are generally well preserved in the lake. People of fame would more often be cremated, in order to avoid looting, and ashes then spread in the lake. A third group of people, for example Prince Daniel Kalirion, had a Viking funeral on the lake, where they were brought to the centre of the lake in a boat, and then the boat would be set ablaze, and the remains buried in the bottom of the lake.

Anseth has one island of note, Venaoy ("island of veins"). It is a barren island, used mainly for religious and cultural rites related to Anseth or death and sorrow. During the later stages of the Storish era (17th century, until 1681), the island was renamed Vanaoy (Vanic island) and the temple was one of the temples of the imperial cult of Stormark.