skald

Etymology

From Old Norse skald. Doublet of scold.

noun

  1. (historical) A Nordic poet of the Viking Age.
    1913, Henry Bedford-Jones, Flamehair the Skald: A Tale of the Days of Hardrede: passim:
    Command Egil the Skald to stand forth and stir our viking blood with his songs of thee. 2010, Myra Gross, Archie Gunn, The Star of Valhalla, Wildside Press, page 335

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