Pocketriders Explained:
Although there's only one story about them in mythology it was a highly popular tale that was told over and over, mainly because of its purpose.

The story goes that a woman who'd just reached adult age on her birthday went wandering around the land owned by her parents farm alone as she often did. However this time she met a newt at the border of her family's territory peeking out of the surrounding forest. The newt asked if he could ride in the woman's pocket to her house and the woman agreed. However as she walked back to the house she could feel the pocket growing heavier and heavier and by the time she had reached her home it was bulging and tearing the seams. The girl was aching and since it had rained on her way back she felt ill with a fever and was rushed to bed. When the family upened up her pocket they found it was bursting with gold. The family were happy to have such wealth but the girl sadly passed away. No amount of gold could ever make up for the girl they lost and though wealthy the family lived an unhappy life.

Unlike the Romans who were extremely open about sex even to their children with pedophilia being a common practice in their culture, the vikings were very reserved about it, unlike popular belief. Children weren't allowed to know what sex is until they reached adult age and so it wasn't discussed openly in public aside for certain encrypted words and phrases the adults would use that the children didn't know what they meant, rather similar to today. The age of concent however was much lower in viking culture due to the fact that people died at an earlier age back then due to disease and viking medicine was still very primative though powerful antiseptics made by herbal mixtures were commonly used by the average person long before any other culture claimed to have invented anticeptic themselves. The viking antiseptic was known in those days as the fabled elixer of life though only the Greeks and Romans were dumb enough to drink it due to its sweet smell and taste.

Viking garments didn't have pockets in those days and so a money pouch would often be tied around the waist and would hang from the crotch region. The male version was called a Sporran and was decorated with animal fur, usually fleece, where as the female version was called a Poke, which later became the word "Pocket" and was made with tanned leather. Therefore the pocket was used as a symbolism for female genitalia due to that fact that it was an opening that lead inside a soft cavity.

In those days vikings had only one word to describe all reptiles and amphibians. The word varied from region to region but the nearest English tanslation is the word Dragon or Serpent. It was also used to describe snake-like things i.e. long narrow objects. Take a wild guess what the viking word for penis is. You'll never look at dragons the same now. Dragons were indeed phallic symbols, though despite them being a popular decoration, only adults knew that the word dragon referred to genetals. Furthermore what was described as small dragons in viking culture specifically meant newts or penises to prevent confusion with other animals.

The Pocketrider tale stood as a way for viking parents to explain the birds and the bees to their children on becoming adults and explain how pregnancy worked. The viking word for sudden wealth was also used to describe newborn babies because having a child would ensure a family's future. The sack of gold in the fairy tale represents a baby and the sudden fatal illness is likely a representation of complications due to child birth.