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Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga

Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga

Santiago Barreiro

Network & Neighbours, vol. 3, n. 1 (2015)

This study analyses the way in which the thirteenth-century Egils saga Skallagrímssonar presented the migration to Iceland of Egill’s father Grímr and grandfather Úlfr, and the creation of a settlement in the area of Borgarfjǫrðr in Western Iceland during the tenth…

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