Thorgerd Egilsdottir

Thorgerd Egilsdottir

Thorgerd Egilsdottir was an Icelandic woman of the tenth century. She was the daughter of Egil Skallagrimsson and the wife of Olaf the Peacock. Olaf and Thorgerd had a number of children: the sons Kjartan, Steinthor, Halldor, Helgi, and Hoskuld and the daughters Thurid, Thorbjorg, Thorgerd and Berghora. The ill-fated Kjartan would be his father's favorite.

References

*Ari the Learned. "The Book of the Settlement of Iceland" "(Landnámabók)". Ellwood, T., transl. Kendal: T. Wilson, Printer and Publisher, 1898.
*Byock, Jesse. "Viking Age Iceland". Penguin Books, 2001.
*Magnusson, Magnus and Hermann Palsson, transl. "Laxdaela Saga". Penguin Classics, 1969.
*Scudder, Bernard, transl. "Egil's Saga". Penguin Classics, 2005.


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