The skalds arranged and improved the old stories, but they were not written down until about the time of our King Stephen, when some unknown writer collected them into one book called the Elder Edda.
England, the skalds had been re-telling many of the poetic stories in prose, and as the people grew more civilised, one tale after another was written down in its new form.
There were professional singers and poets called skaldsamong the northern people, and the power to make verses and to sing was cultivated among the mass of the people and was fairly common.
So the best skaldstraveled much and visited many people.
I long to go there and meet the great men and see the places that skalds sing about.
And there are skalds that sing wonderful songs that men never heard.
So the songs say," replied Olaf, "for skalds still sing of that deed all over Norway.
It would be an excellent thing if at last, through the dramatization and the handwork, the children should come into sufficient understanding and enthusiasm to turn skalds and compose songs in the Norse manner.
The northern skaldsaccompanied the armies to the wars and were present at all the battles.
That the attribution of the art of poetry to Odin, and his consequent position as the special god of poets, was no mere conventional figment of the skalds is best attested by Egil's poem on the loss of his sons.
On the other hand he is a god of wisdom and cunning, knowing all things, and a god of poetry whom the skalds regard as the author of their art.
When we picture the famous sea-kings' ships to ourselves, we do not wonder that the Northmen were so proud of them, or that the skalds were never tired of recounting their glories.
King Harald caused his heathen priests and theskalds to draw near to the right side of the death bed, to console him with songs of Valhalla.
Especially since, lately, a skald from Halogaland visited the monastery, and told of the life at the court of King Harald; of his lordly royal hall, in which twenty skalds by turns play the harp.
And the boy played upon a small three-sided stringed instrument, such as only the Skalds of Hibernia carry, and played a wholly unknown melody.
With good cause she boasteth Herself in deep riddles Above all the Skalds Skilful to be.
Danish Jarl Hako, to the Irish King Konal, "so that the Skalds shall taunt us as drink valiant but battle shy.
And of Gunnlodh, his wonderfully beautiful golden-haired daughter, who pledges the bravest heroes and the bestskalds in the horn.
It often happened that even the Skalds whom he vanquished in song contests, themselves conceived great love for him, and praised his strains more than their own.
For during the long time that he was wholly lost sight of, and the Singing Swan had vanished in flames, and all people held Halfred for dead, the Skalds composed many songs about him.
He signed to his harp-bearer to bring him his silver harp, for he wished at the last, to requite the laudations of the Skalds and the praises of the guests with thanks and a song of welcome.
The compositions of the Skalds were called Sagas, many of which have come down to us, and contain valuable materials of history, and a faithful picture of the state of society at the time to which they relate.
You are right, master, I am Viking every inch of me; these men are skalds every one also, so we need not tell you we like the ring of steel.
Viking chief's grave, and theSkalds will sing of my exploits.
From generation to generation skalds wandered through the winter snows, much as Homer may have wandered in his day across the Grecian vales and mountains, to find a welcome at every stead, because of the old-time story they had to tell.
Thou art a gallant man, though foolhardy; and thou hast done a deed that shall be told of while skalds sing and men live in Iceland.
There amid the songs of the Skalds and the shouts of the warriors, the queen poured forth the sacred mead and handed it to Beowulf in the royal cup of massive gold.
A royal feast it was that the old king gave that night, and the golden mead flowed from the twisted cups in living streams, while the Skalds sang the valorous deeds of heroic Danes of old.
That day the high walls of Heorot rang with the thunderous shouts of the warriors and echoed the inspiring words of the Skalds who sang of Beowulf's victory.
But suddenly the harps struck up, and the skalds poured forth their songs in honor of the dead thane.
Minstrels, gleemen, poets, and skalds (a Scandinavian term for poets) took up these rich themes and elaborated them.
These sagas are not to be so forgotten or disproved as to take away from poetry old periphrases which great skalds have been pleased with.
From here the courts of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England and Germany were supplied withskalds to sing their praises.
His death occurred in the year 1259, and he is numbered among the greatskalds of Iceland.
The Skalds have sung how an Eagle sat in stately majesty on the topmost branch of Yggdrasill, whilst the keen-eyed Hawk hovered around.
Among the Skalds a ship was often compared to an animal, and its masts to the horns of an animal.
From this circumstance, War is called by the Skalds Hildur’s game.
Christian skaldslost their specific application to certain families, and are applied to royal and princely warriors in general.
These, too, have in the songs of the skaldshad several names and epithets.
A postscript to the treatise warns young skalds not to place confidence in the stories told to Gylfe and AEgir.
This episode is also interesting from the fact that we can draw from it the conclusion that the skalds who celebrated the first great war in their songs made the gods influence the fate of the battle, not directly but indirectly.
It will not seem strange to the student of English literature to find that this writer came under the influence of the old skalds and sagaman and spoke appreciative words concerning them.
A few of the skalds are known to us by name, because their lives were written down in later sagas.
Hjalte only spoke of it to the skalds Gissur and Ottar, who thought it was the most happy plan, if it could but be carried into effect.
She received the skalds in a friendly manner, for they were known to her.
I have heard that there are Iceland men in the king's house who are my acquaintances, and are well treated; namely, the skalds Gissur Black and Ottar Black.
Skalds quoted in this saga are: Thorarin Stutfeld, Einar Skulason, Haldor Skvaldre, and Arne Fjoruskeif.
To Russia first his steps he bent, To serve his master still intent; And now besides his king he fell,-- A noble death for skalds to tell.
Long after King Estein had joined his fathers on the little holm beyond Hernersfiord, and Helgi, Earl of Askland, had become but a warlike memory, the skalds of Sogn still sang this tale of Vandrad the Viking.
Though Estein had returned with neither spoil nor captives, the tale of Liot's capture and the combat on the holm added much to his renown, and no fewer than six skalds composed lengthy poems on the adventure.
Skalds sang of the deeds done in the south, and shiploads of spoil confirmed their lays.
A natural love and respect for learning, which had long been smouldering half-neglected, [Pg223] now burst into a quick blaze in the hearts of many of the descendants of the old Norse skalds and Sagamen.
Two skalds of repute made biting lampoons upon Thangbrand, whom Thangbrand, by two opportunities that offered, cut down and did to death because of their skaldic quality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skalds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
