To the church

There is much of interest on the cultural historical database Sarpur.is.

Among other things, it has a large collection on folk customs, and when looking for material on dogs, many curious things come up. For instance, there's a narration about going to church in the old days:

"...It could hardly be said that going to church was an exception to dogs joining the journey. Many dogs often arrived at the church, both willingly and unwillingly, and were often a great nuisance, for example, they got into the churchyard and went berserk, as was often their habit as previously mentioned. Some slipped into the church itself during mass and crawled under the benches. However, they didn't like being inside. It was not uncommon for some to lose their most devout attention when the assistant came, took the dog by the scruff of the neck and dragged it, howling, out of the church..."

Source: Sarpur/Folk customs. male, born 1912, Kirkjubæjarklaustur (Icelandic)