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In the north, muchly distant, in the vicinity of Torvaldsland, and in the waters of Torvaldsland itself, small, isolated, uninhabited skerries are often used as dueling places. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 29, Sentence #21)

This morning, at the Southern Gate, Bruno of Torcadino, I at his heels, leashed, and front-braceleted, had boarded a game ship for the Skerry of Lars, not really a skerry, but a small island five pasangs out in the Tamber Gulf, five pasangs beyond the laws of Port Kar. The tickets are cheap, presumably subsidized in part by the Skerry of Lars itself. And beasts such as I in my collar, with my marked thigh, are conveyed for half price. In the north, muchly distant, in the vicinity of Torvaldsland, and in the waters of Torvaldsland itself, small, isolated, uninhabited skerries are often used as dueling places. In the morning, usually in a small boat, the disputants or contestants are brought to the skerry with a serving of meat and drink. In the evening, the boat returns to the skerry for the survivor. It was doubtless this northern custom which suggested not only the naming of this small islet in the Tamber gulf, so near to Port Kar, but, presumably, the enterprise for which it was best known, the Gambles of Blades, sometimes referred to as the "dark contests". - (Quarry of Gor)