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Bjǫrn (Bkrepp) is entirely unknown, and his ethnicity cannot be confirmed (
Skj gives it as Icel.).
Skáldatal (
SnE 1848-87,
III, 254, 262, 276) lists Bjǫrn among the poets of Magnús berfœttr ‘Barelegs’ Óláfsson (d. 1103). His nickname krepphendi appears to mean ‘the Crooked-handed’. See also
SnE 1848-87,
III, 622-3 and
LH 1894-1901, II, 55.