Sigmund Fish-Hook

Expedition Date/s

1151, 1153

Biography

Sigmund Andresson Fish-Hook is mentioned in Orkeyinga Saga as "barely grown to manhood" but one of the fiercest fighters beside Earl Rognvald in Galicia. He later swims across the river Jordan with the Earl.

Bibliography

Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, trans. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (London: Penguin, 1981), 171. Orkneyinga Saga, ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson (Reykjavík: Hið Íslenzka Fornritafélag, 1965), 208–37.

Citation

“Sigmund Fish-Hook,” Independent Crusaders Project, accessed October 6, 2024, https://independentcrusadersproject.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/216.

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