skalds

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.

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

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.

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

They relied merely on oral traditions and the memory of their skalds for much of their earliest histories.

The Codex Continual » Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part II) 2009

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.

Chapter 17 2010

Many skalds and later bards made stories of Beowulf and his fight with the dragon, but never Aelfhere.

Saving Beowulf Mary Kate Hurley 2008

Many skalds and later bards made stories of Beowulf and his fight with the dragon, but never Aelfhere.

Archive 2008-06-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

She passed over some incised hatches and dots, symbols that explained the story, she knew, though that magic was known only to skalds.

Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010

She passed over some incised hatches and dots, symbols that explained the story, she knew, though that magic was known only to skalds.

Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010

She passed over some incised hatches and dots, symbols that explained the story, she knew, though that magic was known only to skalds.

Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010

She passed over some incised hatches and dots, symbols that explained the story, she knew, though that magic was known only to skalds.

Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010