These are containers containing various loot and should always be checked and opened whenever you find them. Here are the different types of chests you’ll encounter during your adventure:
Common chests like this contains a considerable amount of hacksilver.
These stone coffins contain a higher amount of hacksilver
These legendary chests are already unlocked and contain rare or legendary items. While some of them are found in the open, reaching some of them may require solving environmental puzzles and finding secret paths.
These are special chests locked by runes. They should be opened whenever available since their contents are legendary items such as Idunn Apples that permanently increases your HP gauge. In order to open them, you have to find the corresponding runes scattered around the immediate area and hit them with your axe. The easiest Nornir chests to solve are those with destructible runes since you only need to find and destroy them as shown below.
Other Nornir chests have runes attached to metal bells. Each bell has some sort of unseen countdown timer that activates when you hit it. You have to hit all the bells as fast as you can before the rune reactivates (lights up) again. Some bells are stationary, others are protected by some sort of mechanism or obstacle that will make your job more challenging. However, these are always worth the trouble because of the invaluable legendary items they contain.