Like any young Woodsman, Stigandir was taught to ride. While horses had difficulty moving through some of the more thickly vegetated sections of Greenwood, Stigandir's kin lived just on the outskirts by the river. Thus Dagfinn, Stigandir's father, made sure all his sons and daughters could ride.
His brothers Knut and Geir especially had a certain knack for it. His mother used to watch them practicing in the field next to their home and marvel at their skill, saying they could thread a horse through the eye of a needle.
