A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: [ˈskɔːld]; Icelandic: [ˈskault], meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry.

2022年9月9日 · The role of women as skalds in Norse society is documented in the historical record. Women skalds were clients of nobility, and they operated in an equivalent space to their male counterparts. They also existed in less traditional spaces as recounters of dream visions.

A few women mastered the skaldic meter, but fortunately skalds could use other less demanding meters. In other words, a ‘skald’ was simply a word for a poet, and Straubhaar’s title is therefore justified; she offers a selection of women skalds or poets (but not all), of whom a few compose in dróttkvætt but most in easier meters.

The attitude of these legendary women skalds toward the said legendary heroes varies widely, from mild and flirtatious to pugnacious and hostile. Some of the skalds in this section are valkyries or air-riding spirits, and some are giant-maidens, and thus only marginally human; these tend also to be foresighted prophetesses.

Making use of feminist and poststructuralist theory, especially on language and subjectivity, female characters will be examined as sites of struggle over appropriate behaviour: women’s words and deeds are seen as an outlet for social critique with the potential to subvert the dominant order and express anxieties about their power.

2022年3月24日 · Jorunn may have been an extreme outlier, or she may have been one of many female poets who were employed by other kings or other lords and their words have simply been lost in time. It’s all a part of the mystery that is women in …

A first perusal of the standard twentieth-century collections of skaldic poetry by Finnur Jónsson and Ernst Albin Kock is likely to lead the reader to conclude that the corpus of preserved poetry in Old Icelandic attributable to women poets ( skáldkonur) is rather small.

2011年4月21日 · The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and influential areas of medieval European literature, and much of it is attributable to women skalds. This book presents a bilingual edition (Old Norse and English) with commentary and notes of this material, from the ninth to the thirteenth century and beyond.

The role of women as skalds in Norse society is documented in the historical record. Women skalds were clients of nobility, and they operated in an equivalent space to their male counterparts.

2025年3月8日 · This International Women’s Day special tells the story of a woman named Aud. The only problem is…her story isn’t always the same. In fact, some people know her better as Unn the Deep-minded.