Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found.
Examples
“There were professional singers and poets called skalds among the northern people, and the power to make verses and to sing was cultivated among the mass of the people and was fairly common.”
“They had come to Iceland with a vast stock of tales in poetry, which were related or sung by professional poets, called skalds, at all kinds of feasts and gatherings.”
“How else could I grow, when I served the drink to the bellowings of drunkards and to the skalds singing of Hialli, and the bold Hogni, and of the Niflung's gold, and of Gudrun's revenge on Atli when she gave him the hearts of his children and hers to eat while battle swept the benches, tore down the hangings raped from southern coasts, and, littered the feasting board with swift corpses.”
“They relied merely on oral traditions and the memory of their skalds for much of their earliest histories.”
The Codex Continual » Mantharâs Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part II)
“She passed over some incised hatches and dots, symbols that explained the story, she knew, though that magic was known only to skalds.”
“Many skalds and later bards made stories of Beowulf and his fight with the dragon, but never Aelfhere.”
“And—this is the real point—all Alexandrian men of letters and all skalds would have agreed about the answers.”
“Still, it's a fascinating look at the world of the skalds back in the old old days.”
“As I read a few of the best passages to Mrs. Speculator, I discovered that Moore uses a near-poetic language and style in her prose, all at one evocative and descriptive, in the style of old world skalds.”
“I think about her pedigree and family not a few of us are in the dark still, and I own, for my part, to be much puzzled by the allusions of newspaper genealogists and bards and skalds to Vikings,”
Lists
‘skalds’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.