Horses were often considered the most prized possession of a medieval Icelander. Icelander Thorgisl set out to travel to Greenland. Four years later, the last execution of an Icelander was carried out in Denmark. The average Icelander consumes about 100 gallons of dairy products in one year. A Bristol tax return of 1484 records that his household servants included an Icelander. The greatest Norse author of the 13th century was the Icelander Snorri Sturluson. One Icelander snatched a rifle from a marine and stuffed a cigarette in it.