Egill Skallagrímsson (Egill, son of Grimr the Bald) is an Icelandic hero and poet born in the early 18th century. Xe century in Borg, a farm in the Myrar (Marsh) region in a fjord to which it gave its name, in western Iceland.
Egill Skallagrímsson, the poet of the Viking era
He is the main character in one of the greatest Black family sagas of the island, probably written by the writer and statesman Snorri Sturluson, who describes Egill (in chapter 55 of the Saga) one of his descendants, in the first half of the XIIIe century.
Besides being a warrior of immense power in literary sources, Egill is also famous for his poetry, considered by many historians to be the best of the ancient Scandinavian poets and Sonatorrek, the dirge over his own sons, has been called "the birth of personal lyric poetry". Nordic ". His poems were also the first Old Norse verses to use an end rhyme. The following works are attributed to Egill:
- Aðalsteinsdrapa. Drápa for the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelstan.
- Höfuðlausn ("The Head Ransom", sometimes called "Head-Ransom"), with which Egill bought his life from Eiríkr Bloodaxe, who had sentenced him to death in England.
- Sonatorrek ("The Loss of a Son"). After the death of his son Böðvar who drowned in a storm.
- Arinbjarnarkviða. Dedicated to his companion Arinbjörn.
- Shielddrapa.
- Berudrapa.
- Lausanne.
- Other fragments.
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