English

Alternative forms

• scald

Noun

skald ‎(plural skalds)

1. (historical) a Nordic poet of the Viking Age

   • 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 LLC, ISBN 9781434404633, page 335:

     Command Egil the Skald to stand forth and stir our viking blood with his songs of thee.

Derived terms

• skaldic

Translations

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

Noun

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

1. poet, composer

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology

Uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-

Alternative forms

• skáld

Noun

skald n

1. poet, skald

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

Alternative forms

• skȁlda m or f

Pronunciation

• (skȁld) IPA^(key): /skâld/
• (skȃld) IPA^(key): /skâːld/

Noun

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

1. skald

Slovak

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skaɫt/

Noun

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

1. skald

Declension

Derived terms

• skaldský
• skaldický

References

• skald in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse skald ‎(skald).

Noun

skald c

1. poet