He was buried in a mound at Uppsala and succeeded by his last son Egil.
The saga covers a long period of time, starting in Norway around 850, with the life of Egill's grandfather Úlfr, called Kveldúlfr ("Evening Wolf") and his two sons, Þórólfr (e. Thorolf) and Egill's father Skalla-Grímr.
Egil Olsen | Egil | Per Egil Flo | Finn-Egil Eckblad |
Sigurd recruited the legendary heroes Starkad, Egil the Bald, Grette the Evil (a Norwegian), Blig Bignose, Einar the Fatbellied and Erling Snake.
Edel Eckblad (1914–1994), Norwegian actress, brother of Finn-Egil Eckblad
Egil á Bø Zachariassen (born 2 April 1974) is a Faroese football defender who plays for EB/Streymur and the Faroe Islands national football team.
Theodore White would write "to put Egil Krogh in charge of a secret police operation was equivalent to making Frank Merriwell chief executive of a KGB squad."
Egil One-Hand is a berserker hero from the Icelandic legendary saga Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana.
Ölrún, daughter of King Kjár of Valland, appears in the prose introduction to the Völundarkvida, as a Valkyrie swan-maiden who became the wife of Völund's brother Egil.
Names that can be mentioned are Bruce Rasmussen, Bjørn Ole Rasch, Egil Kapstad, Frøydis Grorud, Rolf Kristensen with more.
1991 - Du er musikken i mit liv' sung by Annette Heick & Egil Eldøen, finished 4th in the national final
Notable skiers were Kåre Vaslag and the five brothers Henry, Torger, Kyrre, Egil and Arthur E. Tokle.
Egil Gløersen was sent to the United States to study the operations of United Airlines and Northwest Airlines.
In Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók and in Historia Norwegiae, he was called Egil Vendelcrow (Vendilcraca/Vendilkráka, a name traditionally given to those living at the royal estate of Vendel in Sweden).
This is seen as a reference to Egil, the heroic archer of Norse mythology, who is depicted on the lid of the Auzon Runic or Franks Casket together with his wife (presumably Ailrun) engaged in battle.
Among biographers who have written about Fangen and his writings are Carl Fredrik Engelstad, Egil Yngvar Elseth, Reidar Huseby and Jan Inge Sørbø.