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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SKALD

From Old Norse, of unknown origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SKALD

skald  [skɔːld] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SKALD

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Skald is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SKALD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Skald

The term skald meaning ‘poet’, is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages. Skaldic poetry forms one of two main groupings of Old Norse poetry, the other being the anonymous Eddic poetry. The most prevalent metre of skaldic poetry is dróttkvætt. The subject is usually historical and encomiastic, detailing the deeds of the skald's patron. There is no evidence that the skalds employed musical instruments, though some speculate they may have accompanied their verses with the harp or lyre. The technical demands of the skaldic form were equal to, if not greater than, the complicated verse forms mastered by the Welsh bards and Gaelic ollaves, and like those poets, much of skaldic verse consisted of panegyrics to kings and aristocrats, or memorials and testimonials to their battles.

Definition of skald in the English dictionary

The definition of skald in the dictionary is a bard or minstrel.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SKALD


appalled
əˈpɔːld
auld
ɔːld
bald
bɔːld
called
kɔːld
cauld
kɔːld
close-hauled
ˌkləʊsˈhɔːld
Cumbernauld
ˌkʌmbəˈnɔːld
enthralled
ɪnˈθrɔːld
fauld
fɔːld
piebald
ˈpaɪˌbɔːld
scald
skɔːld
scalled
ˈskɔːld
skewbald
ˈskjuːˌbɔːld
sprawled
sprɔːld
sunscald
ˈsʌnˌskɔːld
unappalled
ˌʌnəˈpɔːld
uncalled
ʌnˈkɔːld
unrecalled
ˌʌnrɪˈkɔːld
walled
wɔːld
yald
jɔːld

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SKALD

ska
skag
Skagen
Skagerrak
skail
skaith
skaithless
skaldic
skaldship
skanger
skank
skanker
skankier
skankiest
skankiness
skanky
skanky-ho
Skara Brae
Skase
skat

WORDS THAT END LIKE SKALD

aefald
Buchenwald
Donald
emerald
Fitzgerald
Grindelwald
herald
Macdonald
McDonald
Oriental emerald
Ostwald
Oswald
ribald
Schwarzwald
semibald
Teutoburger Wald
the Weald
Tynwald
weald
woald

Synonyms and antonyms of skald in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «skald» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SKALD

Find out the translation of skald to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of skald from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «skald» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

skald
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

skald
570 millions of speakers

English

skald
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डाग़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

skald
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

скальдом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

skald
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কবি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

skald
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Skald
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Skalde
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

skald
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

skald
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Skald
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

skald
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்கால்ட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्केल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ozan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Skald
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skald
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

скальдів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

skald
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

skald
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skald
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skald
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skald
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of skald

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SKALD»

The term «skald» is regularly used and occupies the 70.360 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SKALD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about skald

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKALD»

Discover the use of skald in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to skald and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Yggdrasil: Songs of the Skald
" Ripping in his satire, Brown's verses crush the very pillars of accepted truths and prep the foundations for original thought.This volume contains 26 poems with notes by the author, and 17 original illustrations, supplying readers with a ...
A. Learmont, 2003
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The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald: ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Ari Orgilsson (Fro I), William Morris, Eir Kr Magn Sson, 2012
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Skaldsagas:
It is generally accepted that the skald sagas or skald biographies, as they are sometimes called, form a distinctive sub-set of the sagas of Icelanders to the extent that one can relatively easily assign specific sagas to this sub-set and exclude ...
Russell Gilbert Poole, 2001
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The Life And Death Of Cormac The Skald ("Kormak's Saga"):
But the wit of the Skald is my weapon, And the wine of the gods will uphold me. And this they shall feel in its fulness; Here my fame has its birth andbeginning; And thestout spearsof battle shallsee it, If I 'scape from their hands with my life.
W.G. Collingwood And J. Stefansson, 2014
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Gunnlaug the Worm Tongue and Raven the Skald
Gunnlaug answers, "Neither Onund nor Thorfin are men as good as my father.
Eirikr Magnusson, 2004
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A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Foreword by David C ...
The novel was published in England as Jobber Skald in 1935. Not until many years later did this work appear in England in its proper original version, with the original title of Weymouth Sands (1963). Powys himself urged and carried out the  ...
Mcgann
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Graphic Communications Today
Figure 14-34 At first glance, what's unusual to you about this table of contents page (right) for SKALD magazine? What dominates? How is its format different from most table of contents pages you've encountered? Specifically, how does it  ...
William E. Ryan, Theodore E. Conover, 2004
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What the Bear Said: Skald Tales from New Iceland
Blurring lines between reality and fantasy ... Valgardson continues the Icelandic folk-legend tradition in What the bear said: sklad tales from New Iceland"--P. [4] of cover.
W. D. Valgardson, 2011
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The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
An important aspect of a skald's art was improvisation and he could use a skaldic stanza in repartee. There are many examples of this in the sagas of Icelanders and, even if they are not all genuine, they give, like the kings' sagas, a credible ...
Knut Helle, 2003
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The Golden Horns: Mythic Imagination and the Nordic Past
It begins with a description in third person — "His stature was heroic" — and only then it is said that the old Skald is an anachronism, "a guest from gray days of old, " before "new laws" (Christianity) had changed the northern world. The Skald ...
John L. Greenway, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKALD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term skald is used in the context of the following news items.
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Púca Puppets Presents Mary Mary Viking Skald
Púca Puppets character Mary Mary Viking Skald will be telling mystical tales to rapt audiences across Dublin from tomorrow, and the tour hits Dublin 4 next week ... «News Four, Jul 15»
2
Looking at Loki
I assume the narrator means Loki in regards to Thor, especially when we see an antler-bearing shamanic figure -- a skald, we're told. Knowing that a skald is a ... «Sequential Tart News, Jun 15»
3
Loki: Agent of Asgard #13
His coloring immediately lets the reader see that the Skald sequence is set far in the past, and it makes the transitions between present and past that much ... «Comic Book Resources, Apr 15»
4
Community coffee shop combats violence
Johnson just opened The Urban Skald, a community-focused coffee shop off 5th St. in Waterloo. It's a neighborhood that struggles with acts of violence. «kwwl.com, Apr 15»
5
Les mondes de Thorgal. Louve : Skald [bande dessinée]
Le cinquième opus tiré des mondes de Thorgal raconte la suite des aventures de sa fille Louve. Louve est traquée par Crow, une louve qu'elle avait blessée à ... «Breizh Info, Mar 15»
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Helrunar - Interview mit Skald Draugir zu "Niederkunfft"
Das neue Album "Niederkunfft" stellt einen musikalischen als auch konzeptionellen Bruch in der bisherigen Geschichte von HELRUNAR dar. Einerseits ... «metal.de, Mar 15»
7
Holger Danske: The Danes and 'The War of the Fourteen Centuries'
Yes, I love my new mission as a skald, a recorder of feats and deeds. And today, I savor my work more than ever, because epic events are at hand. “Of all that ... «Breitbart News, Feb 15»
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Folkelig skald
Folkelig skald. «Tusen bitar» er blitt et mangfoldig portrett som trenger seg på, uavhengig av hvilket forhold man har til Björn Afzelius. ØYVOR DALAN VIK. «Dagens Næringsliv, Sep 14»
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Wyrd Words: Faces of Odin – Soldier, Scholar, Skald, and Skeptic
What, then, of Óðinn the Skald? Just when we think we've got a handle on this warrior archetype, we are introduced to an entirely different side: the pensive poet ... «Patheos, May 14»
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Runemaster Reveals Skald Class and Its Unique Music-Powered …
On the official forums, the company states that, “The Skald rely on the magic of their songs to inspire their troops, augment their skills, heal the wounded and ... «Softpedia, Apr 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Skald [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/skald>. May 2024 ».
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