Egil's Saga: his younger days

[Bathilde]

When Egil killed that kid, what did you think about that?

[Wodenborn]

with the symptoms that he displayed, together with the description of his physical stature and physionomy it is a virtual certainty that he suffered from Pagets disease.
see: http://www.viking.ucla.edu/Scientific_A ... _Bones.htm

living in a warlike society where violence was institutional and natural, as a sufferer of pagets I'd say he couldn't help himself anyway

[Bathilde]

Very interesting idea, I hadn't heard it before.