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- ↑ Sayers, William (2016), "Verbal Expedients and Transformative Utterances in Episodes of Egils saga Skallagrímssonar", Scandinavian Studies, 88 (2): 182 (endnote 1),
[Phillip] Theisohn errs on several points of detail: ... Úlfr inn óargi, not Kveldúlfr ([2009 paper, ] 148), is Berðlu-Kári's partner in the opening chapter of the saga. ]
- ↑ Egil's Saga (Chapter 1, Pálsson & Edwards 1976 , p. 21). See Pálsson and Edwards' introduction, where the stemma indicates Kveldulf and Salbjorg are spouses (p. 14) and Berle-Kari is Egil's great-grandfather(p. 11)
- ↑ Sayers, William (2015), "Generational Models for the Friendship of Egill and Arinbjǫrn" (PDF), Scripta Islandica, 66: 145,
the marriage of Úlfr's grandson, Úlfr Bjálfason (called Kveld-Úlfr), to Kári's daughter Salbjǫrg.
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