Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi).

The article discusses about the hólmganga, a specialized type of combat alleged to a have been current in the Viking Age North. Topics discussed include hólmganga as a culture-specific form of one-on-one fighting, obstacle to identifying the hólmganga as a duel and the total number of hólmgongur attested in the sagas.