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20: 96: 429: 74:(1854-1932),(see note) who found 'the historical homestead, still partly built of oak-beams carved and moulded in the ancient times'. This building has not survived. However, there is a twentieth-century monument to Egill by Icelandic sculptor 115:: it faces north–south, which is not traditional for Icelandic churches. It is also unusual in that the church building does not stand in the church yard, but is separated from it by the farm buildings. The 489: 236: 470: 390: 382: 241: 157:. He made an extensive trip around Iceland preparing an illustrated book "A Pilgrimage to the Saga-steads of Iceland" (published at 78:(1893–1982). The abstract sculpture represents him as he grieves for two of his sons, Gunnar and Böðvarr, and seeks solace in the 494: 346: 463: 104: 71: 350: 246: 120: 456: 296: 112: 64: 154: 52: 75: 19: 35: 63:), who claimed the area around Borg as his land, built a farm and made his home there. His son 378: 48: 119:, depicting Christ blessing the little children, is unique in Iceland for being painted in 162: 56: 271: 440: 132: 483: 107:
around the year 1000, shortly after Egill's death. The present Borg á Mýrum Church (
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Collingwood was an antiquary and an expert on the Norse legacy in
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has a collection of Collingwood's art work related to the book)
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Borg á Mýrum was visited in 1897 by a British antiquary,
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Borg á Mýrum has had a church ever since Iceland was
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[ˈpɔrk]
Borgarnes
recorded history
settlement of Iceland
Skallagrímur Kveldúlfsson
Egill Skallagrímsson
William Gershom Collingwood
Ásmundur Sveinsson
skaldic poem
Sonatorrek

Christianised
geographical alignment
altarpiece
Pre-Raphaelite
Egil's Saga
Cumbria
University of Reading
Ulverston
Icelandic Sagas
"Borg á Mýrum"
"Egil Skallagrimsson"


"Collingwood's Letters from Iceland"
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
the original

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