Definitions for skalds

skalds skald

Spelling: [skawld, skahld]
IPA: /skɔld, skɑld/

Skalds is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in skalds (adklss).

Definitions for skalds

noun

  1. one of the ancient Scandinavian poets.

Origin of skalds

First recorded in 1755-65, skald is from the Old Norse word skāld poet

Examples for skalds

This Audun was the skald who sang at the drinking of King Halfdan's funeral ale.

He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.

The king thought it too early to awaken the army, and asked where Thormod the skald was.

The skald Ottar Black came to him there, and begged to be received among his men.

Sigvat the skald had gone to Rome, where he was at the time of the battle of Stiklestad.

If this were Vinland, it was greater than saga told or skald sang.

He is of the type of the skald, the bard, the seer, the prophet.

Folk declare that every skald has a drop of Kvasir's blood in him.

For Jon, who lacked much, had this gift: he had a skald's tongue.

That he whom the skald characterises by this epithet is a god is a matter of course.

Word Value for skalds
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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