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This article examines a legendary narrative about the life of the Danish-born Siward, Earl of Northumbria (d. 1055), which is preserved in a thirteenth-century manuscript from Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire. This narrative, several elements of which have close parallels in Old Norse literature, has usually been treated as a fragmentary survival of an oral legend, accidentally preserved by an unwitting...
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