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Egil or Egill is a masculine given name derived from
Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...
. It may refer to:


Characters

* Egil (Hymiskvida), farmer in the poem ''Hymiskvida'' * Egil, brother of Volund, hero of Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga *
Egil One-Hand Egil One-Hand is a berserker hero from the Icelandic legendary saga . Life Egil was the son of Hring ruler of Småland and Ingibjorg, daughter of Earl Bjarkmar of Gautland. Egil was a troublesome young boy who would often go with a gang of his fri ...
, hero from the Icelandic saga ''Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana'' * Ongentheow, also known as Egil


Places

* Eğil, a district of Diyarbakır Province, south eastern Turkey * Egil Peak, Sverdrup Mountains, Antarctica


Other uses

* Egil (given name) *Electrical Generation and Integrated Lighting Systems Engineer, NASA
flight controller Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in mission control centers such as NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center or ESA's European Space Operations Centre. Flight controllers work at computer consoles a ...


See also

* Eigil *'' Alt for Egil'', a 2004 Norwegian musical film directed by Tore Rygh, starring Kristoffer Joner and Trond Høvik * Egil's Saga, 13th century Icelandic saga * Egill Skallagrímsson Brewery, an Icelandic brewery and beverage company based in Reykjavík and founded on April 17, 1913 {{disambiguation, geo