skald

See also: skáld

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse skald. Doublet of scold.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /skɔːld/, /skæld/

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, page 335:
      Command Egil the Skald to stand forth and stir our viking blood with his songs of thee.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

Noun

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

  1. poet, composer

Declension
Declension of skald
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
Declension of skald
n5 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skald skaldið skøld skøldini
accusative skald skaldið skøld skøldini
dative skaldi skaldinum skøldum skøldunum
genitive skalds skaldsins skalda skaldanna

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeldaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-. Compare German schelten and Dutch schelden.

Noun

skald n

  1. poet, skald

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

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
Declension of skald
singular plural
nominative skald skaldi, skaldovia
genitive skalda skaldov
dative skaldovi skaldom
accusative skalda skaldov
locative skaldovi skaldoch
instrumental skaldom skaldmi

Derived terms
  • skaldský
  • skaldický

References
  • skald in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

Noun

skald c

  1. poet
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