In the canon
Egil's Saga
Anonymous
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1240
- Originally in
- Originally in Old Norse
- Pages
- Pages 250
At seven years old, beaten in a ball game by a bigger boy, he fetches an axe and settles it, then walks back to the benches without a word. Egil Skallagrimsson is the ugliest and greediest hero any literature has troubled to keep, and he is also the greatest poet in Iceland, wich is the whole trouble and the whole glory of this book.
I mean to sow broadcast the silver, and I shall be surprized if all share it fairly between them.
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