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skald

also scald (skôld, skäld)

A medieval Scandinavian poet, especially one writing in the Viking age.

[Old Norse skāld; see sek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

skald′ic adj.

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skald

(skɔːld) or

scald

1. (Music, other) (in ancient Scandinavia) a bard or minstrel

2. (Historical Terms) (in ancient Scandinavia) a bard or minstrel

[from Old Norse, of unknown origin]

ˈskaldic, ˈscaldic adj

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skald

or scald

(skɔld, skɑld)

n.

an ancient Scandinavian poet.

[1755–65; < Old Norse skāld poet]

skald′ic, adj.

skald′ship, n.

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The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Rafn the Skald. Trad.

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(10) In fact, the skald's branks is foreshadowed by the title of his first collection, Cage Without Grievance (1942)--the cage is the poetic and linguistic structure in which the poet, as lion tamers would at circuses, willingly places himself.

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(2) Bragi Boddason, also called Bragi the Old, was a poet (skald) active during the ninth century.

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Correspondences: Melville, Olson, Charters

The Kin's artefacts, crammed in a relatively small upstairs room at the Whitechapel, make for a rather claustrophobic experience, though the artefacts even in their names create a mysterious world: the Kinlog, the Bok Scamel, the Skald, the Kist; the Kistbearer's tabard.

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The story tells that a little snake, the spirit and the embodiment of good luck for the sword, was crawling out beneath the sword guard (The Saga of Cormac the Skald, Chapter 9).

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Nordstrom, 1784) 335; "sa manga stora handelser innefattar aret 1783 och lika sa manga amnen des skald uti et qvade.

The poem as concert: Lidner, Oxenstierna and the unity of the long poem

uit die stofdie see die skald se handevuurvoet tracks en die verstuite trein van wat verlange 2001) en ook in Prevot van der Merwe se 'die hemel help ons' (Boerejive 1990).

We are aware--Creative writing, concrete poetry and writers' resistance/ Ons kyk vanself--Kreatiewe Skryfkuns, konkrete poesie en 'n verset teen skrywersnorme

Condemning gossip is sparked in Nidaros by the public performance of a malicious "skald" a highly structured poem.