skald

• scald

From Old Norse skald. Doublet of scold.

• IPA^(key): /skɔːld/, /skæld/
• Rhymes: -ɔːld, -æld
• Homophone: scald

skald (plural skalds)

1. (historical) A Nordic poet of the Viking Age.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28:

     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.

   • 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, →ISBN, page 335:

     Command Egil the Skald to stand forth and stir our viking blood with his songs of thee.

• skaldic

• dalks

From Old Norse skald.

• IPA^(key): /skalt/

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

1. poet, composer

• tónaskald

• skaldanavn, skaldaverk, skaldkona, skaldskapur, skaldsøga

• "skald" at Sprotin.fo

Learned borrowing from Old Norse skald, skáld.

• IPA^(key): /skɑld/

skald m (definite singular skalden, indefinite plural skaldar, definite plural skaldane)

1. (historical) a skald

• “skald” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “skald”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

• skáld

Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeldaną,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *skeldʰ-.[1] Compare German schelten and Dutch schelden.

skald n

1. poet, skald

From Old Norse skald (“poet”).

• IPA^(key): /skalt/

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• Rhymes: -alt
• Syllabification: skald

skald m pers

1. (historical) skald (a Nordic poet)

   Hypernyms: poeta, śpiewak

• skald in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• skald in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• skȁlda m or f

From Old Norse skald.

• (skȁld) IPA^(key): /skâld/
• (skȃld) IPA^(key): /skâːld/

skȁld m (Cyrillic spelling ска̏лд) or skȃld m (Cyrillic spelling ска̑лд)

1. skald

Derived from Old Norse skald.

• IPA^(key): /skaɫt/

skald m anim (genitive singular skalda, nominative plural skaldi, skaldovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. skald

• skaldský
• skaldický

• skald in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

From Old Norse skald.

skald c

1. poet