All these savour only of a northern origin, and the whole piece is exactly such a performance as one would expect from a gleeman or minstrel of the north of England, who had derived his art and his ideas from his scaldic predecessors there.
And it will also help to account for the superior skill and fame of our northern minstrels and harpers afterwards: who had preserved and transmitted the arts of their scaldic ancestors.
The best of the scaldic lays, however, are greatly inferior to the Eddaic poems.
Scaldic and Eddie poems comprised all that was known to English readers of that literature, and in them the superhuman rather than the human elements were predominant.
He insists that the Saxon poetry was powerfully affected by "the old scaldic fables and heroes," and gives in the text a translation of the "Battle of Brunenburgh" to prove his case.
He admires "the scaldic dialogue at the tomb of Angantyr," but wrongly attributes a beautiful translation of it to Gray.
It was too much affected by the vanities of the rival Scaldic poetry; it was overcome by rhetoric.
The Northern epic failed, because of the premature development of lyrical forms, first of all within itself, and then in the independent and rival modes of the Scaldic poetry.
Several scaldic lays are also attributed to Snorre, besides portions of the Younger Edda--a collection of myths and legends, dealing with the traditions of the ancient Asa faith.
Scaldic lays are introduced into the text as evidences of the veracity of the narrative, and anecdotes are preserved which throw a strong light upon the characters of the heroes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scaldic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
