EGILL SKALLAGRIMSSON (c. goo-983), an Icelandic skald, was forced to emigrate by Harold Fairhair, and after some years in the service of the English king, Aethelstan, returned to Norway, and took revenge by killing the son of Erik Blodox in 934. Later he gained the favour of the king by his poem, Ho f udhlausn (partial Swedish trans. by Sorenssen in 1866 and by Akerblom in 1899).
His other works include the sagas Sonatorrek, Arinbjarnardrdpa (Swedish trans. by B j Orlin in 1864) and Skjaldardrdpa. The well known Icelandic poem, Egill's Saga, has been edited by F. Jonsson (Copenhagen, 1886; 2nd ed., 1924; Eng. trans., 1893). Some critics attribute it to Snorri Sturlason, e.g., A. Bley, Eigla Studien (Ghent, 1909). See also F. Khull, Die Gesch. des Skalden E. Skallagrirnsson (1888).