[4] eyjarskeggjar ‘island-beards’: A pejorative term, found also in Heiðr 19/4 and Ǫrv 106/6, in the latter case also about men from Orkney, apparently reflecting a mainland Scandinavian view that island-dwellers were rough and hairy. A political faction in Norway c. 1093 that rebelled against King Sverrir was called Eyjarskeggjar. This group came from Orkney and the Hebrides and attempted to install Sigurðr, the young alleged son of Magnús Erlingsson, on the throne of Norway (see Sv chs 119-20, ÍF 30, 180-6).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF 30 = Sverris saga. Ed. Þorleifur Hauksson. 2007.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Sverris saga’ 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=2> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 66 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 430.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 106 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 36)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 915.