Stichelton obtained from the original producer by Hodgson's colleague, and subsequently kept alive for fifteen years. Stichelton is made in a dairy, from the unpasteurised milk of Friesian-Holstein cows at Collinthwaite Farm, on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire. "ForbesLife" magazine described it as a "sumptuous cheese that sets a full-flavored, succulent, complex chain of sensations going in your mouth: fruity and salty, buttery, and earthy, sharp and creamy. Robin Hood never had it so good." The starter culture for the cheese is known as MT36, the original culture used in the pre-1989 unpasteurised Stiltons, and is different from the culture that
Víga-Glúms saga means goat) and the suspicion that it was committed by Sighvatr Sturluson. One of the fragments of the longer version of the saga also contains the story of Ǫgmundr dytt (Bash), which is also told in a different form in the "Great Saga of Ólafr Tryggvason"; presumably this was also originally an independent þáttr. "Víga-Glúms saga" has been relatively unpopular amongst the Sagas of Icelanders, partly because of Glúmr's unlikeability, partly because it and the other Eyjafjörður sagas are poorly preserved. Scholars have drawn on the saga for information on hereditary luck; in "Fortælling og ære" (1993), Preben Meulengracht Sørensen