Talk:Egils saga

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I corrected the nationality of Egill. Since he was a homicidal maniac, I should perhaps have let it stand uncorrected, me being an Icelander. :-) Anyway, I used it as an opportunity to add a stub about his father. Io 20:11, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

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Sorry for the changes as you can see at [1]. I do not know / remember / recall how this happened. I appologise. Please note that both variants of the name are used Egill Skallagrímsson and Egill Skalla-Grímsson. Regards Gangleri 18:11, 2004 Oct 27 (UTC)

[edit] Article name

Shouldn't this be named Egil's saga, in keeping with Njál's saga, and the fact that the "s" is a possessive from English convention? Since the Icelandic is "Egla," then clearly we haven't inherited the spelling from that source. I'd like to see this moved.zadignose 08:14, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Egils saga is the normal Old Norse / Icelandic form; Egla is more of a nickname. Similarly Njáls saga and Njála. Haukur 10:20, 8 July 2007 (UTC)