Definition of "skald"
skald
/skɔːld/
noun
plural skalds
(historical) A Nordic poet of the Viking Age.
Quotations
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.
1820, Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], page 28
1913, Henry Bedford-Jones, Flamehair the Skald: A Tale of the Days of Hardrede: passim