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  1. skaldnoun

    a Nordic poet of the Viking Age

  2. Etymology: From skald.

Wikipedia

  1. Skald

    A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: [ˈskald], later [ˈskɒːld]; Icelandic: [ˈskault], meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry, the other being Eddic poetry, which is anonymous. Skaldic poems were traditionally composed on one occasion, sometimes extempore, and include both extended works and single verses (lausavísur). They are characteristically more ornate in form and diction than eddic poems, employing many kennings and heiti, more interlacing of sentence elements, and the complex dróttkvætt metre. More than 5,500 skaldic verses have survived, preserved in more than 700 manuscripts, including in several sagas and in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, a handbook of skaldic composition that led to a revival of the art. Many of these verses are fragments of originally longer works, and the authorship of many is unknown. The earliest known skald from whom verses survive is Bragi Boddason, known as Bragi the Old, a Norwegian skald of the first half of the 9th century. Most skalds of whom we know were attached to the courts of Norwegian kings during the Viking Age, and increasingly were Icelanders; the subject matter of their extended poems was sometimes mythical before the conversion, thereafter usually historical and encomiastic, detailing the deeds of the skald's patron. The tradition continued into the Late Middle Ages. The standard edition of the skaldic poetic corpus, Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning, was edited by Finnur Jónsson and published in 1908–1915. A new edition was prepared online by the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages project and began publication in 2007.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Skaldnoun

    see 5th Scald

Wikidata

  1. Skald

    The skald was a member of a group of poets, whose courtly poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry. The most prevalent metre of skaldic poetry is dróttkvætt. The subject is usually historical and eulogic, detailing the deeds of the skald's king. It is not known whether the skalds employed musical instruments, though some speculate they may have accompanied their verses with the harp or lyre. The technical demands of the skaldic form were equal to the complicated verse forms mastered by the Welsh bards and Gaelic ollaves, and like those poets, much of the skaldic verse consisted of panegyrics to kings and aristocrats, or memorials and testimonials to their battles. The kings and nobles, for their part, were not only intelligent and appreciative audiences for gifted skalds; some of them were poets in their own right.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Skald

    n.=Scald, a poet.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Skald

    an old Scandinavian poet, a reciter or singer of poems in praise of the Norse warriors and their deeds.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Skald

    An ancient northern bard or minstrel. The word is Scandinavian for “poet.”

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Skald in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Skald in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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