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Definition of Skalds
1. skald [n] - See also: skald
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skalds
Literary usage of Skalds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The skalds, who appear to have been divided into two classes — poets, who composed
or remembered verses in which events were related, or chiefs and their ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"The oldest of the Norwegian professed poets, or skalds, ... end of the ninth and
the beginning of the tenth century, the names of skalds became historical. ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"The oldest of the Norwegian professed poets, or skalds, ... end of the ninth and
the beginning of the tenth century, the names of skalds became historical. ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"Its mode of construction is simple in prose, and in the earlier forms of poetry,
although in the later periods of the skalds (qv) it degenerated into a ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"Its mode of construction ia simple in prose, and in the earlier forms of poetry,
although in the later periods of the skalds (qv) it degenerated into a ..."
6. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"The Death of Bal'dur—The Elves—Runic Letters— skalds—Iceland. The Death of Bal'dur.
Bal'dur the Good, having been tormented with terrible dreams, ..."
7. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"THE DEATH OF BALDUR —THE ELVES —RUNIC LETTERS — skalds — ICELAND. THE DEATH OP
BALDUR. BALDUR the Good, having been tormented with terrible dreams ..."
8. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"IN moile of construction is simple in prose, and in the- earlier forms of poetry,
although in the later Periods of the skalds (qv) it degenerated into a ..."
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