The Germanic stories of lindworms have them guarding a treasure hoard. Deel wants a hoard of gold coins from John. He attempts to steal the Banana Hoard again. It was during these investigations that Wheeler personally discovered the Lydney Hoard of coinage. Behind the wall was a small cave stuffed with an enormous hoard of manuscripts. He summons the Nibelungen, who bring up the hoard of gold. In the hall Uhtred finds Skade and a hoard of gold. Sackboy races through many places ransacked by the hoard. The quality of the artefacts buried in the hoard is very high. A Roman coin hoard was found nearby in 2006. One theory is that they hoard shiny objects to impress other ravens. Atli is seized by greed for the hoard and agrees. They will hoard food in small, buried stores. Firefighters discover a hoard of child pornography there. As a result, they tended to hoard their grain and to revert to subsistence farming.