there was harma dogshead , a squat keg of a woman with cheeks like slabs of white meat , who hated dogs and killed one every fortnight to make a fresh head for her banner ; earless styr , magnar of thenn , whose own people thought him more god than lord ; varamyr sixskins , a small mouse of a man whose steed was a savage white snow bear that stood thirteen feet tall on its hind legs .