[4] í Sarp ‘into Sarpfossen’: This is a large waterfall in the town of Sarpsborg, south-eastern Norway. According to Hkr, Ásbjǫrn got the choice of being hanged or plunging into the waterfall, and he chose the latter because he found that mode of death more cruel.
References
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Heimskringla’ 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=4> (accessed 6 May 2024)