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Greetings from Godfrey!

Gwenllian Cwmystwyth writes:
>
>  Yup.  You missed the original thread, all right. ;>  What we were
>  "discussing" (except that implies more than I was contributing) was
>  not whether or not Bloodaxe is a period name, but just why good ol'
>  Eric *got* that particular byname in the first place.

Ah, I see.

It *could* be from what he did after he was driven out of York.  
According to _Hakonar_saga_Goda_: 

        When he (Eirik) saw that he had no power to withstand
        Hakon's host, he sailed away west over seas with such 
        men as would follow him.  He went first to the Orkneys,
        and he got thence a great force of men; then he sailed
        south toward England and harried in Scotland wherever 
        he came to land.

It was for this reason that he earned the epithet `farbjodr Skota'
(destroyer of the Scots); perhaps `Blodox' was given for similar 
reasons, although of course this is just more conjecture.

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