Egil's Bones by duester45
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Description
When Christianity was adopted by law in Iceland, people say that Thordis
had Egil's bones moved to the church, and this is the evidence. When a
church was built at Mosfell, the one Grim had built at Hrisbru was
demolished and a new graveyard was laid out. Under the altar some human
bones were found, much bigger than ordinary human bones, and people
are confident that these were Egil's because of the stories told by old men.
Skapti Thorarinsson the priest, a man of great intelligence, was there at the
time. He picked up Egil's skull and placed it on the fence of the
churchyard. The skull was a large one and Skapti wanted to find out just
how thick it was, so he picked up a heavy axe, swung it in one hand and
struck as hard as he was able, trying to break the skull. The skull neither
broke nor dented.
Egil's bones were re-interred at the edge of the graveyard at Mosfell.
Such were possibly the words of Snorri Sturlusson.
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Comments (3)
Mondwin
Awesome and cool image...bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx
stolta
Excellent!!!!!
NekhbetSun
Love this....fave !