sentences:  Another source is in the Vita Ansgari, the biography of Ansgar the Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, which was written by a monk named Rimbert.Rimbert details the custom of casting lots by the pagan Norse (chapters 26-30).The chips and the lots, however, can be explained respectively as a "blótspánn" (sacrificial chip) and a "hlauttein" (lot-twig), which according to Foote and Wilson  would be "marked, possibly with sacrificial blood, shaken and thrown down like dice, and their positive or negative significance then decided."