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...ght but not from heartyour battles will pass into tales,songs and poem,The Skalds will speak of a LegendA mighty warriorAnd a King of his people.Go no...

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...her’s mood odd considering the events of themorning. Behind Erik stood his skald, Grimr, and behind the skaldstood musicians, playing horns, harps, an... ...on this voyage, unless thegods will it not to be” Erik said.Then Grimr the skald stepped forward, speaking in a loud clear voice.“Listen thee, to the ... ...e Greenlanders!”Leif cursed at the cheers, eyes clouded by red mist as the skald brokeinto another poem, speaking of the bravery of Erik the Red. Bjar...

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...maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,With the sale of slaves, with ent... ...-it is I, it is You,We touch all laws and tally all antecedents,We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easilyinclude them and more,... ... at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen,The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds,Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds,The Border Minstrelsy, the b...

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...maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,With the sale of slaves, with ent... ...—it is I, it is You,We touch all laws and tally all antecedents,We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easily include them and mor... ... at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen,The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds,Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds,The Border Minstrelsy, the b...

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... higherlife. In his many-sidedness Björnson was also in his time the first skaldof his people, almost equally endowed with genius as a narrative, adra... ...ages. From the year1874 on in Björnson's life the chieftain supplanted the skald, so far aslyrical utterance was concerned. He was leading his nation ... ...rmed by the 7influence of the Old Norse sagas and skaldic poetry. The latter mayalso have increased his use of alliteration, ... ... broadest sense, a themeat once simple and complex. It is in them that the skald and chieftain sotypically blend in one. Of this group the influence h... ...ll of his youthful, kingly longingsDoomed on the cliffs to burst,--Until a skald discoveredShining domes in the cloud-mists, that hovered.And that was... ...ed the war forces of theland.Eyvind Finnsson, uncle of Haakon, was a great skald, who sang hisdeeds and Norway's sorrow over his death.Olaf the Saint ... ...AR INGEMUNDSON'S LAY. In the first half of the twelfth century anIcelandic skald of this name lived and sang at the court of KingEystein in Norway. He...

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...on. * Berserk rob​ber or moon​light skald it will be known, un​veil​ing a truth by com​bat as...

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...rists) can be compared with Greek bards, poets like Homer or Scandinavian skalds. The “tsymbaly” or dulcimer is an instrument widespread in Easter...

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...wrote: ‘He fell, smiling: and died.’ It is not the cool enthusiasm of a Skald certainly: Körner had hissword by his side; handsome, fair, yo... ...exist? Are they not Northerncharacters, born from the chants of the Skalds, and of whom the heroictradition is found on Swedish shores? Are th...

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...an, thoughfoolhardy; and thou hast done a deed that shall be told of while skaldssing and men live in Iceland." "Make place, my father," said Gudrud... ...rm and buried in a drift. ForJon, who lacked much, had this gift: he had a skald's tongue. Men havealways held that it was to the honour of Jon that h...

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...at bottom many of them were forest-fellers as well as fighters, though the Skalds talk mainly of the latter,—misleading certain critics not a little; ... ...t of the matter, men who as it were but toyed with the matter, these later Skalds; and it is their songs chiefly that survive. In later centuries, I s... ...aps it on his head; the “handles of it reach down to his heels.” The Norse Skald has a kind of lov- ing sport with Thor. This is the Hymir whose cattl... ...red not with the Christian Shakspeares and Miltons, but with the old Pagan Skalds, with any species of believing men! The living TREE Igdrasil, with t...

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...had ever since been a sort of high-born head nurse in the palace. A Danish skald, who had once been at the English court, had said that she seemed to ...

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... maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys, With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle, With the sale of slaves, with ... ...—it is I, it is You, We touch all laws and tally all antecedents, We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easily include them and mo... ...d at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen, The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds, Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, t...

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...ORDVATN There were then a good many youths growing up in Midfjord. A certain Skaldtorfa, whose home was in Torfustadir, had a son named Bersi, an acco... ...outh named Odd, who was dependent upon them, and was nicknamed Odd the Needy Skald. Another was named Audun; he grew up in Audunarstad in Vididal, a p... ...being slain if he lived. There had come to the jarl’s court Bersi the son of Skaldtorfa, Grettir’s comrade and friend. He and Thorfinn stepped before ... ...land as to accept atonement for such a crime as this.” Then Bersi the son of Skaldtorfa came up and begged the jarl to accept blood money. “Grettir,” ... ...At that time the two foster brothers Thorgeir Havarsson and Thormod Coalbrow Skald were very much to the front; they kept a boat, gathering what they ... ... Atli from Bjarg. Many other excellent stallions were brought. Odd the Needy Skald, Kormak’s kinsman, had the charge of their horse on the day. He had... ...an of theirs named Narfi South to Nordrardal on some business. Odd the Needy Skald had recovered from the hurts which he had received at the horse fig...

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...orwegian poet. She turned round to him, and asked him some questions about Skald, and so, getting into conversation with him, managed to turn her shou...