The Saga Of Egil Skallagrimsson A Viking Norse Saga Green Translated By Rev W C by Green Translated By Rev W. C B079THHZQN instant download after payment.

EGILL SKALLAGRÍMSSON (ca. 910AD – ca. 990AD) was a Viking
Age poet, warrior and farmer and the protagonist of this Saga. Born in Iceland,
the son of Skalla-Grímr Kveldúlfsson, a respected chieftan, and Bera
Yngvarsdóttir. Egill composed his first poem aged three years and exhibited
berserk behaviour at an early age (a bloody theme which continues throughout
the saga), and this, together with the description of his large and
unattractive head, has led to the theory that he might have suffered from
Paget's disease. This is corroborated by the Mosfell Archaeological Project
with an archaeological find of a head from the Viking era at Mosfell which is thought
to be Egill's.

At the age of seven, Egill was cheated in a game with local
boys. Enraged, he procured an axe, and returning to the boys, split the skull
of the boy who cheated him. Later in life, after being grievously insulted,
Egill killed Bárðr of Atley, a retainer of King Eirik Bloodaxe and kinsman of
Queen Gunnhildr. Seething with hatred, Gunnhildr ordered her two brothers to
assassinate Egill and his brother Þórólfr. However, Egill slew the Queen's
brothers when they attempted to confront him.

Declared an outlaw by Eirik Bloodaxe, Berg-Önundr gathered a
company of men to capture Egill, but was killed in his attempt to do so. Before
escaping from Norway, Egill also slew Rögnvaldr, the son of King Eirik and
Queen Gunnhildr. He then cursed the King and Queen, setting a horse's head on a
Nithing pole. He later fought at the
Battle of Brunanburh in the service of King Athelstan.

Ultimately, Egill returned to his family farm in Iceland,
where he remained a power to be reckoned with in local politics. He lived into
his eighties. Eventually blind, died shortly before Iceland converted to
Catholicism. Before Egill died he buried his silver treasure near Mosfellsbær.
In his last act of violence he murdered the servant who helped him bury his
treasure.