Þórður Harðarson & Elisabet Snorradóttir. Egil’s or Paget’s disease
- Author: Þórður Harðarson & Elisabet Snorradóttir
- Title: Egil’s or Paget’s Disease
- Published in: British Medical Journal 313/7072
- Year: 1996
- Pages: 1613-14
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- Reference: Þórður Harðarson & Elisabet Snorradóttir. "Egil’s or Paget’s Disease." British Medical Journal 313/7072 (1996): 1613-14.
- Key words: medicine (læknisfræði)
Annotation
While Egil’s saga was written some 250-300 years after his death, the account of his exhumation takes place only around a hundred years prior to the saga being written. The description of what is believed to have been Egil’s skull tallies well with textbook descriptions of Paget’s disease (osteitis deformans), as do descriptions of Egil in old age. Based on Þórður Harðarson’s article in the journal Skírnir (1984).
Lýsing
Egils saga er skrifuð um 250-300 ár eftir fráfall Egils. Höfuðbein sem er talin vera frá Agli er þó grafin upp aftur um 100 ár áður en sagan er skrifuð og þessi yngra frásögn og lýsingar af elli Egils virðast lýsa manni sem þjást af Pagets heilkenni (osteitis deformans). Byggist á grein Þórðar Harðarsonar í Skírni (1984).
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References
Chapter 89: allur báróttur utan: "A corrugated and irregular bone surface hardly seem to add to the lustre of a great warrior and poet. It is, however, a common description in medical textbooks. A curious and observant twelfth century Icelander noticed the same irregular corrugated features that twentieth century medical students are taught to look for as signs of Paget’s disease" (p. 1614).
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- Written by: Katelin Parsons
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