My Favorite Viking!

The person that I choose from all the sagas that we have read is Egil, and yes it is cliché because he is the stereotypical Viking. But this is exactly why I choose him, he seems to match the cultural depiction of Vikings, almost too well. I believe that our views on Vikings may have been based on Egils saga period. The stereotypical Viking does not show any cleverness, as in ref the sly, it is simply brute force and ignorance, all of which is embodied in Egil. He is a very “successful” person, at poetry, at maintaining his honor, and staying alive period. Egil was the person that the Christian Church was looking for, to demonize the Viking people, and it was this person whom they feared. Not to mention that Egil himself was just a cool guy. I think it shows a lot of his personality that he killed someone before he was a teenager, and managed to get himself out of certain death at the hands of the king of England. He is just a cool character. No wonder Snorri was fascinated with him, not to mention a relative of Egils’.