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Cynegar the Pious

Cynegar the Pious (828-874), born Egil, was a Danish Roman Catholic monk who lived in an isolated hut in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England during the late 9th century AD. On a Monday in March 874 AD, he changed his name and decided to "relinquish the ills of (his) past" and "clear his palate of the sin that once dominated it." Cynegar resolved to never be angry again, but, when the Norwegian Viking warrior Eivor crossed his path, Cynegar passive-aggressively insulted Norse paganism and suggested that Eivor convert. This led to a conversation in which Cynegar bragged that God enabled him to never again be angry, and he encouraged Eivor to test his faith by stealing or destroying his possessions, burning down his house, and slaughtering his cattle. However, when Eivor stole his key and opened a back room full of upside-down-hung dead bodies and containing treasure, Cynegar finally broke down, as Eivor called him a hypocrite who abused his power as a clergyman. Cynegar had an angry outburst, and he decided to kill Eivor; however, Eivor axed him in the head, killing him.

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