Dictionary

skald en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /skæld/
• /skɔːld/

Etymology

From Old Norse skald. Doublet of scold.

Meanings

1. (historical) A Nordic poet of the Viking Age.
   • 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, →ISBN, page 335:
   • The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore chaunted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28:

Forms

Deriveds

skaldic · skaldship

Translations (19)

non skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · sh skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · fo skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · hy սկալդ (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · pl skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · se skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · no skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · de Skalde (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · sk skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · da skjald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · mr स्काल्ड (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · fi skaldi (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · is skáld (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · es escaldo (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · it scaldo (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · sh скалд (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · ru скальд (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · tr skald (Nordic poet of the Viking Age) · eo skaldo (Nordic poet of the Viking Age)