In the canon
Orkneyinga Saga
Anonymous
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1200
- Originally in
- Originally in Old Norse
- Pages
- Pages 250
Sail north until Scotland gives out and the sea takes over: these are the islands this book accounts for, wind and open water held by men who called Norway, not Scotland, home. Its heart is a morning on Egilsay, where Earl Magnus Erlendsson, cornered by his cousin, refuses to fight, asks to be struck on the head rather than beheaded like a thief, and stands comforting the cook ordered to swing the axe.
In the spring he was very busy sowing a large breadth of seed, and he usually did a great part of the work himself
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