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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: At Atloy-Bard's feast for King Erik and Queen Gunhild, Egil provokes Bard by making biting remarks about Bard's stinginess and implying he is not serving him enough ale. Bard complains to Gunhild, who then conspires with Bard to put poison into Egil's drink. Presumably it's not meant to kill Egil, but rather to make him sick and thus take him down a peg. Egil however detects the poison and reacts by killing Bard later the same night.
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* PalmBloodletting: When Egil uses magic to check a horn of ale offered to him by Atloy-Bard for poison, he carves runes into the horn and "stabs the palm of his hand" in order to smear the runes with his own blood.
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* BloodMagic: When Egil suspects that the horn of ale offered to him by Atloy-Bard is poisoned, he cuts the palm of his hand, carves runes into the drinking-horn, and smears the runes with his own blood. The horn breaks and the ale spills. Seemingly the blood was needed to activate the power of the runes to magically expose the poison.
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* BondVillainStupidity: After Egil and his companions have been captured on a viking raid in Courland, the leader of the Courlanders (a "powerful and wealthy man") wants to put the captives to death "one by one" at once. His grown-up son persuades him to wait until the next day, as it's already becoming dark, and "they would not be able to enjoy torturing them". Sure enough, Egil and the others esacpe from their prison during the night and rob and burn down the rich man's farmstead.
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* BondVillainStupidity: After Egil and his companions have been captured on a viking raid in Courland, the leader of the Courlanders (a "powerful and wealthy man") wants to put the captives to death "one by one" at once. His grown-up son persuades him to wait until the next day, as it's already becoming getting dark, and "they would not be able to enjoy torturing them". Sure enough, Egil and the others esacpe escape from their prison during the night and rob and burn down the rich man's farmstead.
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* BondVillainStupidity: After Egil and his companions have been captured in on a viking raid in Courland, the leader of the Courlanders (a "powerful and wealthy man") wants to put the captives to death "one by one" at once. His grown-up son persuades him to wait until the next day, as it's already becoming dark, and "they would not be able to enjoy torturing them". Sure enough, Egil and the others esacpe from their prison during the night and rob and burn down the rich man's farmstead.
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* BondVillainStupidity: After Egil and his companions have been captured in on a viking raid in Courland, the leader of the Courlanders (a "powerful and wealthy man") wants to put the captives to death "one by one" at once. His grown-up son persuades him to wait until the next day, as it's already becoming dark, and "they would not be able to enjoy torturing them". Sure enough, Egil and the others esacpe from their prison during the night and rob and burn down the rich man's farmstead.
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* ForcedCreativity: When Egil falls into the hands of his enemy Eirik Bloodaxe, Arinbjorn, a follower of Eirik but also a friend of Egil, persuades Eirik to postpone executing Egil until the next morning, then advises Egil to use the night to compose a praise poem of twenty stanzas for Eirik. The next day, Egil recites his poem, aptly called "Head-Ransom", in front of Eirik, and it is partially because of the poem that Eirik lets Egil go alive. "Head-Ransom" is usually interpreted as a poem that sounds impressive to a layman (like Eirik), but which a poet would recognize as stylistically mediocre, implying that Egil was sabotaging his own poem in order to signal to the initiated that his praise of Eirik was insincere.
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* BondVillainStupidity: After Egil and his companions have been captured in on a viking raid in Courland, the leader of the Courlanders (a "powerful and wealthy man") wants to put the captives to death "one by one" at once. His grown-up son persuades him to wait until the next day, as it's already becoming dark, and "they would not be able to enjoy torturing them". Sure enough, Egil and the others esacpe from their prison during the night and rob and burn down the rich man's farmstead.
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''The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson'' (Original title: ''Egils saga Skallagrimssonar''), or ''Egil’s Saga'' for short, is an [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Icelandic Saga]] from c. 1240. Like many sagas, [[AnonymousAuthor the author is anonymous]].
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''The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson'' (Original title: ''Egils saga Skallagrimssonar''), or ''Egil’s ''Egil's Saga'' for short, is an [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Icelandic Saga]] from c. 1240. Like many sagas, [[AnonymousAuthor the author is anonymous]].
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** When Jarl Arnvid of Varmland sends out his henchmen to ambush Egil and his companions bringing the taxes from Varmland to King Hakon, he explicitly orders them to let no one escape and to kill them all. The plot fails, as it turns out that the jarl's goons are no match for Egil.
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** When Jarl Arnvid of Varmland sends out his henchmen to ambush Egil and his companions bringing the taxes from Varmland to King Hakon, he explicitly orders them to let no one escape and to kill them all. The plot fails, as it turns out that the jarl's goons are no match for Egil.
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** When Jarl Arnvid of Varmland sends out his henchmen to ambush Egil and his companions bringing the taxes from Varmland to King Hakon, he explicitly orders them to let no one escape and to kill them all. The plot fails, as it turns out that despite their numbers, the jarl's goons are no match for Egil.
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** When Jarl Arnvid of Varmland sends out his henchmen to ambush Egil and his companions bringing the taxes from Varmland to King Hakon, he explicitly orders them to let no one escape and to kill them all. The plot fails, as it turns out that despite their numbers, the jarl's goons are no match for Egil.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: Living out his life in the house of Grim, the aged Egil rides out at evening, accompanied by two slaves and carrying his two chests of silver with him. He does not return for a whole night, and in the morning returns without the silver and without the slaves, revealing that he has hidden the treasure and that he has killed the slaves to keep the secret.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: LeaveNoWitnesses:
** When Jarl Arnvid of Varmland sends out his henchmen to ambush Egil and his companions bringing the taxes from Varmland to King Hakon, he explicitly orders them to let no one escape and to kill them all. The plot fails, as it turns out that despite their numbers, the jarl's goons are no match for Egil.
** Living out his life in the house of Grim, the aged Egil rides out at evening, accompanied by two slaves and carrying his two chests of silver with him. He does not return for a whole night, and in the morning returns without the silver and without the slaves, revealing that he has hidden the treasure and that he has killed the slaves to keep the secret.
** When Jarl Arnvid of Varmland sends out his henchmen to ambush Egil and his companions bringing the taxes from Varmland to King Hakon, he explicitly orders them to let no one escape and to kill them all. The plot fails, as it turns out that despite their numbers, the jarl's goons are no match for Egil.
** Living out his life in the house of Grim, the aged Egil rides out at evening, accompanied by two slaves and carrying his two chests of silver with him. He does not return for a whole night, and in the morning returns without the silver and without the slaves, revealing that he has hidden the treasure and that he has killed the slaves to keep the secret.
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* RunicMagic: There are many instances of runic magic, most famously when Egil discovers a poisoned drink intended for him by carving runes painted with his own blood into the drinking horn.
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* RunicMagic: There are many instances of runic magic, most famously when Several times, Egil discovers displays his knowledge of the magical use of runes.
** Attending apoisoned drink intended for him by carving runes painted feast at Atloy-Bard's, hostility builds up between Egil and Bard until Bard puts poison in Egil's drink. Egil is suspicious and stabs the palm of his hand with his own blood knife, carves runes into the drinking horn.horn, smears them with his blood, and speaks a skaldic verse. The horn shatters, implying the runes magically detected the poison.
** After King Erik has banished Egil from Norway, Egil curses Erik and Gunhild by erecting a wooden "scorn-pole" with the severed head of a horse on top while chanting a curse on Erik and Gunhild, and additionally carving the same curse on the pole with runes.
** On their journey to Varmland, Egil and his companions are taken in by a farmer whose daughter is sick and has not been getting better for a long time; the farmer, Thorfinn, explains that the son of one of his neighbors tried to cure her by carving runes into a piece of whalebone and putting the bone into her bed, but she has only been getting worse since then. Egil examines the runes and declares that they have been carved incorrectly by a hack, and that is what is making the daughter sick. Egil scrapes off the runes and burns the bone, then carves another rune bone and puts it under the daughter's pillow. She immediately begins to feel better. On the return journey, Egil again meets Thorfinn and learns that his daughter has made a full recovery, and also that the neighbor's son had tried to carve a love-spell, but screwed it up because of his lack of expertise.
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** After King Erik has banished Egil from Norway, Egil curses Erik and Gunhild by erecting a wooden "scorn-pole" with the severed head of a horse on top while chanting a curse on Erik and Gunhild, and additionally carving the same curse on the pole with runes.
** On their journey to Varmland, Egil and his companions are taken in by a farmer whose daughter is sick and has not been getting better for a long time; the farmer, Thorfinn, explains that the son of one of his neighbors tried to cure her by carving runes into a piece of whalebone and putting the bone into her bed, but she has only been getting worse since then. Egil examines the runes and declares that they have been carved incorrectly by a hack, and that is what is making the daughter sick. Egil scrapes off the runes and burns the bone, then carves another rune bone and puts it under the daughter's pillow. She immediately begins to feel better. On the return journey, Egil again meets Thorfinn and learns that his daughter has made a full recovery, and also that the neighbor's son had tried to carve a love-spell, but screwed it up because of his lack of expertise.
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The authorship discussion doesn't seem all that relevant. In any case, the author does neither identify himself nor is there are any authorship tradition attached to the saga. Also breaks up the flow of the text; the summary is more important than the authorship discussion, and pushing it down the page is undesirable.
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''The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson'' (Original title: ''Egils saga Skallagrimssonar''), or ''Egil’s Saga'' for short, is an [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Icelandic Saga]] from c. 1240. Like many sagas, [[AnonymousAuthor the author is anonymous]]. There is a hypothesis, grounded on an analysis of the vocabulary, that Creator/SnorriSturluson is the author. Definite proof for that conjecture, however, is lacking. Contentwise, many scholars has pointed out that ''Egil's Saga'' has a radically different attitude to Norwegian king Harald Fairhair and his family and does not agree about the names of his sons and grandsons which is out of character for the meticulous Snorri.
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''The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson'' (Original title: ''Egils saga Skallagrimssonar''), or ''Egil’s Saga'' for short, is an [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Icelandic Saga]] from c. 1240. Like many sagas, [[AnonymousAuthor the author is anonymous]]. There is a hypothesis, grounded on an analysis of the vocabulary, that Creator/SnorriSturluson is the author. Definite proof for that conjecture, however, is lacking. Contentwise, many scholars has pointed out that ''Egil's Saga'' has a radically different attitude to Norwegian king Harald Fairhair and his family and does not agree about the names of his sons and grandsons which is out of character for the meticulous Snorri.
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''The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson'' (Original title: ''Egils saga Skallagrimssonar''), or ''Egil’s Saga'' for short, is an [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Icelandic Saga]] from c. 1240.
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''The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson'' (Original title: ''Egils saga Skallagrimssonar''), or ''Egil’s Saga'' for short, is an [[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Icelandic Saga]] from c. 1240.
1240. Like many sagas, [[AnonymousAuthor the author is anonymous]]. There is a hypothesis, grounded on an analysis of the vocabulary, that Creator/SnorriSturluson is the author. Definite proof for that conjecture, however, is lacking. Contentwise, many scholars has pointed out that ''Egil's Saga'' has a radically different attitude to Norwegian king Harald Fairhair and his family and does not agree about the names of his sons and grandsons which is out of character for the meticulous Snorri.
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* HeroicSacrifice: When Egil is twelve, his father Skallagrim goes berserk at a ball game and seizes Egil with the apparent intent of killing him. Egil's childhood caretaker Thorgerd Brak tries to stop Skallagrim by shouting at him that he is attacking his own son, which causes Skallagrim to let go of Egil and charge at Thorgerd. Thorgerd thus saves Egil's life, but Skallagrim kills her by hitting her with a boulder he hurls after her.
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* DrawAggro: Twelve-year-old Egil and his friend Thord are playing a ball game against Skallagrim when Skallagrim suddenly goes into a berserk fury, grabs Thord and kills him by dashing him into the ground. When Skallagrim seizes Egil, with the apparent intent of killing him in a like way, his serving-woman Thorgerd Brak "who had fostered Egil when he was a child" shouts at him that he is attacking his own son "like a mad beast". Skallagrim lets go of Egil and charges at Thorgerd, who runs away and dives over a cliff in order to escape swimming, but Skallagrim hurls a boulder after her which kills her. Skallagrim's fury then wears off, and he reverts to his normal self.
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* GideonPloy: When King Olaf of Scotland and his allies invade northern England with a large army, King Athelstan of England formally challenges him to battle at a place called Vinheiðr. However, Athelstan has few troops with him, and therefore only a small English contingent (including Thorolf and Egil) sets up camp at Vinheiðr while Athelstan is gathering troops for the battle in southern England. When the advance party makes camp at Vinheiðr, they leave every third tent empty, and put only a few men in the others; besides, they set up the camp on high ground so that the Scots cannot overlook the camp and realize how small it really is and how few people are really there. When King Olaf's messengers arrive to negotiate, all the English throng at the front of the camp (so that the messengers cannot see into the camp) and complain that there is not enough space for them in the camp. The Scots do not realize they have the advantage of numbers, and by simultaneously playing the Scots with peace talks that go nowhere, the English manage to delay the battle until Athelstan arrives with the main army.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: On a raid in Courland, Egil and his companions are captured by the Courlanders, but manage to break out of their prison in the night. After robbing an armory and a treasury, they make their way back to the ships with the Courlanders still unaware of their escape. When they are already halfway to safety, Egil suddenly gets second thoughts on their course of action, because the fact that the Courlanders are not aware they have been robbed means that they have committed dishonorable theft, and are thus disgracing themselves. Egil asks his companions to go back to the farm they robbed and fight with the Courlanders; although they all refuse, Egil puts down his loot, goes back to the farm alone, sets fire to the main hall, kills some of the occupants who want to rush out by the door, and locks the others up in the burning building by blocking the door with logs. Having thus restored his honor, he returns to his companions.
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It's not the last voyage.
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* SparedButNotForgiven: On his last voyage from Iceland, Egil and his crew are shipwrecked off Northumbria and thus fall into the power of Egil's old enemy Eirik Bloodaxe, who unbeknownst to Egil now rules as King of York. As Egil has committed numerous severe offences against King Eirik, including but not limited to the killing of Eirik's son, Eirik wants to have Egil executed at once. However his advisor Arinbjorn, who is also a friend of Egil, persuades Eirik to grant Egil a single night so Egil can compose a praise-poem in honor of Eirik. After Egil has recited the poem the next day, Eirik lets Egil go alive as his reward for the poem, but makes clear that there is no reconciliation and that if Egil should ever fall into Eirik's hands again, he will certainly die.
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* SparedButNotForgiven: On his last voyage Sailing from Iceland, Iceland to England, Egil and his crew are shipwrecked off Northumbria and thus fall into the power of Egil's old enemy Eirik Bloodaxe, who unbeknownst to Egil now rules as King of York. As Egil has committed numerous severe offences against King Eirik, including but not limited to the killing of Eirik's son, Eirik wants to have Egil executed at once. However his advisor Arinbjorn, who is also a friend of Egil, persuades Eirik to grant Egil a single night so Egil can compose a praise-poem in honor of Eirik. After Egil has recited the poem the next day, Eirik lets Egil go alive as his reward for the poem, but makes clear that there is no reconciliation and that if Egil should ever fall into Eirik's hands again, he will certainly die.
