[5] hættan helverk ‘a dangerous mortal illness’: Mork identifies the illness from which Magnús Haraldsson died as reformr (ÍF 23, 325), translated by Andersson and Gade (2000, 446 n. 2) as ergotism, a disease caused by eating fungus-affected grain. Óláfr kyrri died of an illness on 22 or 23 September 1093 (see ÍF 24, 16).
References
- Bibliography
- Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- ÍF 23-4 = Morkinskinna. Ed. Ármann Jakobsson and Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson. 2009.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Morkinskinna’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=87> (accessed 26 April 2024)