Egill's Saga or Egil's saga (Old Norse: Egils saga [ˈeɣels ˈsɑɣɑ]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈeijɪls ˈsaːɣa] ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the...
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Egill Skallagrímsson (redirect from Egil Skallagrimsson)
berserker, and farmer. He is known mainly as the anti-hero of Egil's Saga. Egil's Saga historically narrates a period from approximately 850 to 1000 AD...
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Atla saga Ótryggssonar Bandamanna saga Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa Droplaugarsona saga Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar – Egil's Saga Eiríks...
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Gunnhild, Mother of Kings (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
Egil's Saga § 36. Egil's Saga §§ 56–58. Egil's Saga §§ 59–60. Egil's Saga § 60. Egil's Saga § 60. the Icelandic source is, essentially, giving Egil credit...
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Njörðr (section Egils saga)
ISBN 978-0-304-34520-5. Scudder, Bernard (Trans.) (2001). Egil's Saga as collected in The Sagas of Icelanders. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-100003-1. Simek, Rudolf...
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Eric Bloodaxe (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
Alison Finlay. Egils saga, ed. Finnur Jónsson, Egils saga Skallagrímssonar. Halle, 1894; tr. Herman Pálsson and Paul Edwards, Egil's Saga. Harmondsworth...
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Kvenland (category Saga locations)
century, as described in the map, see section F. Egil's Saga, Chapter XIV Egil's Saga, Chapter XVII Egil's Saga, Chapter X Norna-Gests þáttr, chapter 7. Archived...
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ships, but adds that he entered the mouth of the river Humber. Egil's Saga is an Icelandic saga written in Old Norse in 1220–40, which recounts a battle at...
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Hel (mythological being) (section Egils saga)
In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egils saga that date from the 9th and 10th centuries, respectively. An episode in...
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bear's form.: 126 For example, the band of men who go with Skallagrim in Egil's Saga to see King Harald about his brother Thorolf's murder are described as...
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Harald Fairhair (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
saga renders Harald's title as einváldskonungr (absolute king). Not unlike Egil's Saga, Harald's conquest of Norway sets off the plot of Grettis saga...
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In chapter 79 of Egil’s Saga, Thorgerd manipulates her father for his own good. After the death of his son Bodvar, a grieving Egil takes to his bed and...
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Thorgerd Brak (section Egils saga)
Poole, Russell; Tulinius, Torfi H. (2016-01-28). Egil, the Viking Poet: New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'. University of Toronto Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4426-2124-4...
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the poem, Thorgerda, is a woman who threatens to commit suicide in the Egil's Saga. Freyja Naglfar Bailey, George Henry (1974). The Poetry of John Payne...
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Fólkvangr (section Egils saga)
in Valhalla. Others were also brought to Fólkvangr after their death; Egils Saga, for example, has a world-weary female character declare that she will...
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for Egil, a 2004 Norwegian musical film directed by Tore Rygh, starring Kristoffer Joner and Trond Høvik Egil's Saga, 13th century Icelandic saga Egill...
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mentioned in a number of medieval Icelandic sources, including Egil's saga and Grettis saga. It is however unclear how similar this was to modern-day skyr...
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Hålogaland (category Saga locations)
closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga. In 873 AD, according to the Egil's saga (written c. 1240) the Kvens and Norse cooperate in battling...
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Snæfellsnes peninsula. The Saga is usually not regarded as artistically equal to Egil's saga, Njáls saga and Laxdæla saga. Nevertheless, it is valued...
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Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn (1916), Styrbiorn the Strong (1926) and Egil's Saga (1930). The first was his tribute to a Trinity College friend, a poet...
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Edwards 1976, Egil's Saga, Chapter XVII, p. 29–31 Pálsson & Edwards 1976, Egil's Saga, Chapter IX, pp. 35–37 Pálsson & Edwards 1976, Egil's Saga, Chapter XVI-XVII...
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They are mentioned in Old Norse runestone inscriptions, sagas (most notably in Egil's Saga), and poetry (such as Thorbjorn Hornklofi's poem Haraldskvæði)...
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Faravid (section Saga's description of the encounter)
historiallisen yhdistyksen vuosikirja, 27/2003, p. 35 "Egil's Saga - Icelandic Saga Database". Icelandic Saga Database. Leppäaho Unto Salo, Faravidin retket ja...
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(1809). Egils saga. Copenhagen: Joh. Rud. Thiele. pp. 374, 378–79. Retrieved 6 October 2014. Pálsson, Hermann; Paul Edwards (1976). Egil's Saga. Harmondsworth:...
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and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's Saga. He was assassinated in 1241 by men claiming to be agents of the King...
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Citations Scudder, Bernard (2000) [1997]. Örnólfur Thorsson (ed.). Egil's Saga. Smiley, Jane (preface), Kellogg, Robert (Introduction). New York: Viking...
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Iceland. According to Egil's Saga, Kari was a berserker, and a comrade-at-arms of Ulf the Fearless (Úlfr inn óargi).. The saga also Kari's three offspring...
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of England) c. 1240 Bartholomeus Anglicus – De proprietatibus rerum Egil's Saga Johannes de Garlandia – De Mensurabili Musica Rudolf von Ems – Alexanderroman...
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first mentioned as a commodity in the 13th-century Icelandic prose work Egil's Saga, where chieftain Thorolf Kveldulfsson, in the year 875 AD, ships stockfish...
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family. Egils Saga § 1 (Thorsson 3). Egil's Saga § 2 (Thorsson 4). Egil's Saga § 8 (Thorsson 12). Egil's Saga § 8 (Thorsson 13). Egil's Saga § 9 (Thorsson...
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