skald

Alternative forms

• scald

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.

Anagrams

• dalks

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

Noun

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

1. poet, composer

Alternative forms

• skáld

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

Alternative forms

• skȁlda m or f

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

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

References

• skald in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Etymology

From Old Norse skald.

Noun

skald c

1. poet