Egils Saga Part 2

Egil embodies the stereotypical Viking. He is big, very brutal in his killings, and likes his poetry. Perhaps the stereotypical Viking was based around Egil. Vikings lived long before Egil, but Egil may have been one of the most memorable of them. Personally if I saw a person with Egils’ stature, I wouldn’t forget him easily. Not to mention that the stereotypical Viking is “bloodthirsty” which is seen in the saga all to often. Egil kills that one kid when Egil himself is only 7 or so. Later, Egil wins a duel by biting the one guy’s neck and ripping out his throat. This personifies the traditional Viking, but as the movies that we have seen repeatedly state, the “Viking” was tarnished but the few people that were like this. For example, the Viking ships, classic symbol of Vikings. But Vikings didn’t just use the ship, some Vikings had to have built it, which means that whoever built it would have been employed to use his skills in construction in other ships. A very simplistic example but the point is that Egil may have helped tarnish the “Viking” image and shape it to be one of rage, and brute force.