The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Rafn the
Skald. Trad.
(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.
(2) Bragi Boddason, also called Bragi the Old, was a poet (
skald) active during the ninth century.
cites Olson's self-nomination as a
skald, the Viking-era term for
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.
The term
skald, meaning 'poet', is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages.
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).
Nordstrom, 1784) 335; "sa manga stora handelser innefattar aret 1783 och lika sa manga amnen des
skald uti et qvade.
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).
Condemning gossip is sparked in Nidaros by the public performance of a malicious "
skald" a highly structured poem.