However, Scandinavian sources mostly deal with his interaction with the legendary Danish king Hr???lfr Kraki (Hro???ulf), and Eadgils is mostly presented in a negative light as a rich and greedy king.NameThe Norse forms are based an older (Proto-Norse ) *A???ag (where *a???a is short for *a???ala meaning noble, foremost (German 'adel') and *g means arrow shaft[2]).