Jesse Byock cited a passage describing this man's exceptionally large, heavy skull as being ridged all over like a scallop shell, and strong enough to survive an axe blow, as one piece of evidence supporting the hypothesis that this man suffered from Paget's disease.
Jesse Byock cited a passage describing this man's exceptionally large, heavy skull as being ridged all over like a scallop shell, and strong enough to survive an axe blow, as one piece of evidence supporting the hypothesis that this man suffered from Paget's disease. When a ten-year-old bests him at a ball-game, he responds like any normal seven-year-old, picking up a halberd and putting the blade through the skull of his opponent. As a child, he wins three sea-snail shells and a duck's egg for composing a stave (*) describing his ride to Swan-ness. When he is handed a poisoned drinking horn, he pricks his palm, scratches runes on the horn, smears blood on them, then recites a poem that causes the horn to burst. That horn was poisoned by his nemesis, a daughter of Auzur Toti named Gunnhilda who marries Eric Bloodaxe. For 10 points, name this famed skald, the title character of an Icelandic saga, who was the son of Skallagrim.
Jesse Byock cited a passage describing this man's exceptionally large, heavy skull as being ridged all over like a scallop shell, and strong enough to survive an axe blow, as one piece of evidence supporting the hypothesis that this man suffered from Paget's disease.
Egil Skallagrimsson [accept "Egil Skallagrimsson's Saga" or other equivalents]