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unusual facts about Egil's Saga


Egil's Saga

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.


Aun

He was buried in a mound at Uppsala and succeeded by his last son Egil.

Battle of Brávellir

Sigurd recruited the legendary heroes Starkad, Egil the Bald, Grette the Evil (a Norwegian), Blig Bignose, Einar the Fatbellied and Erling Snake.

Bjǫrn the Easterner

Bjǫrn the Easterner is a character in such works as Laxdæla saga, Eyrbyggja saga, and Eirik the Red's Saga.

Eckblad

Edel Eckblad (1914–1994), Norwegian actress, brother of Finn-Egil Eckblad

Egil á Bø

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.

Egil Krogh

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

Egil One-Hand is a berserker hero from the Icelandic legendary saga Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana.

Halfdan the Old

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.

Hrolf Kraki's Saga

Hrolf's champions are roused from sleep and rallied by the chanting the Bjarkamál, a famous Old Norse poem whose origins supposedly lie in this event; it has been largely lost, but Anderson presents a partial reconstruction as part of his story.

Joern Skogheim

Names that can be mentioned are Bruce Rasmussen, Bjørn Ole Rasch, Egil Kapstad, Frøydis Grorud, Rolf Kristensen with more.

Keld Heick

1991 - Du er musikken i mit liv' sung by Annette Heick & Egil Eldøen, finished 4th in the national final

Leonard J. Fick

As late as 2007, one former Fick student reported that next to his bedside table was Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman and the first Swede to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1909.

Løkken IF

Notable skiers were Kåre Vaslag and the five brothers Henry, Torger, Kyrre, Egil and Arthur E. Tokle.

Magnus Magnusson

Among these are several works by Halldór Laxness, the Nobel prize-winning novelist from Iceland, and a number of Norse sagas which he co-translated (with Hermann Pálsson) for the Penguin Classics series: Njal's Saga (1960), The Vinland Sagas (1965), King Harald's Saga (1966) and Laxdaela Saga (1969).

Norwegian Air Lines

Egil Gløersen was sent to the United States to study the operations of United Airlines and Northwest Airlines.

Ongentheow

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).

Pforzen buckle

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.

Ronald Fangen

Among biographers who have written about Fangen and his writings are Carl Fredrik Engelstad, Egil Yngvar Elseth, Reidar Huseby and Jan Inge Sørbø.

Sigtrygg Silkbeard

However, earlier Scandinavian sources (notably the Orkneyinga saga, Njál's saga and the Darraðarljóð, composed soon after the battle) contend that he did actually fight valiantly at Clontarf.


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