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skald

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See also: skáld

English

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skald. Doublet of scold.

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skald (plural skalds)

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

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skald.

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skald n (genitive singular skalds, plural skald or skøld)

  1. poet, composer

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n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skald skaldið skald skaldini
accusative skald skaldið skald skaldini
dative skaldi skaldinum skaldum skaldunum
genitive skalds skaldsins skalda skaldanna

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Norse skald, skáld.

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skald m (definite singular skalden, indefinite plural skaldar, definite plural skaldane)

  1. (historical) a skald

References

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  • “skald” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “skald”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeldaną,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *skeldʰ-.[1] Compare German schelten and Dutch schelden.

Noun

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skald n

  1. poet, skald

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*skelda-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Norse skald.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskalt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -alt
  • Syllabification: skald

Noun

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skald m pers

  1. (historical, poetry) skald (Nordic poet)
    Hypernyms: poeta, śpiewak

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Further reading

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  • skald in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skald.

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skȁld m (Cyrillic spelling ска̏лд) or skȃld m (Cyrillic spelling ска̑лд)

  1. skald

Slovak

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Etymology

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Derived from Old Norse skald.

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skald m pers (genitive singular skalda, nominative plural skaldi, skaldovia, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. skald

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References

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  • skald”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Swedish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Norse skald. The inherited form would be *skåll.

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skald c

  1. (historical) skald
  2. (higher register) poet
    Synonym: poet
    • 1897 December 7, August Strindberg, edited by Torsten Eklund, August Strindbergs brev. 12. December 1896–augusti 1898 (letter), Till Emil Kléen, page 231:
      Skalden, hvilken har journalismen som näringsfång borde medan han är jemförelsevis ung göra en studieresa till Europens hufvudstad, Paris; t.ex. under pretext studera journalism och telegrambyråkratism.
      The poet, who has journalism as a livelihood, while he is comparatively young, should make a study trip to the capital of Europe, Paris; for example under the pretext of studying journalism and telegram bureaucracy.

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