skald
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skald
- /skɔːld/
- /skæld/
Sounds like scald · Rhymes with -ɔːld, -æld
Where it comes from
From Old Norse skald. Doublet of scold.
noun skalds · scald
- A Nordic poet of the Viking Age. 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.
