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Thorkel or
Thorkell (Þórkæll / Þorkell) is an Old
Norse masculine personal name.
Among the more
famous holders of the name are:
Thorkel of Namdalen, ninth-century...
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brother Thorkel develop a
strained relationship over
whether to
support Bard, a man
seducing their elder sister Thordis.
Gisli kills Bard, and
Thorkel incites...
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primitive laboratory somewhere in the
Peruvian jungle, mad
scientist Alexander Thorkel attempts to
shrink all of
humanity to
reduce its
impact on the environment...
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Thorkell the Tall, also
known as
Thorkell the High in the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle (Old Norse: Þorke(ti)ll inn hávi; Norwegian:
Torkjell Høge; Swedish: Torkel...
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Thorkel Amundason and, in
danger of his life, he fled to Thorfinn's
court in Caithness. He
became his foster-father,
hence his by-name, "
Thorkel Fosterer"...
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Thorkel Amundason, also
known as
Thorkel Fóstri (
Thorkel the Fosterer), was an
Orcadian man,
foster father of
Thorfinn the Mighty, and
killer of Earl Einar...
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Thorkel of
Namdalen was a
Norwegian jarl in
Namdalen who
lived in the mid to late
ninth century CE.
Thorkel married Hrafnhilda, the
daughter of Ketil...
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among the
farmers led to a
certain Thorkel Amundason going to
Einar to
protest the levies.
Einar agreed to
Thorkel's request the
first year he was asked...
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unfold when
Thorkel hears his wife tell Aud, Gisli's wife, that she had
amorous feelings for
Vestein before she
married Thorkel,
leading Thorkel to suspect...
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Hwicce under Æthelred, but
certainly soon to his son Leofric. In 1021,
Thorkel also fell from
favour and was outlawed.
Following his
death in the 1020s...
