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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Heil 1VII

[All]: St. 1 is too fragmentary for a firm connection between the various legible words to be established, but it may describe how the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket burst into Canterbury cathedral and attacked him. The st. seems to preserve complete or in fragmentary form the four men’s names: Reginald Fitzurse (= Reinaldr Bjarnarson), Richard Brito (= Rígarðr or Ríkarðr Brito), William de Tracy (probably the ‘ilialm’ of our text, Vilhjálmr af Traz), and Hugh de Morville (= Hugi hinn sterki, Hugi af Morevil); for the ON forms of these names, as recorded in versions of the prose saga of Thomas Becket, see Unger 1869, 236-7 and 434; Eiríkur Magnússon 1875-83, I, 514.

References

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  2. Unger, C. R., ed. 1869. Thomas Saga Erkibyskups. Fortælling om Thomas Becket Erkebiskop af Canterbury. To bearbeidelser samt fragmenter af en tredie. Christiania (Oslo): Bentzen.

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