What is "skalds"

Usage examples of "skalds".

His story was later told by the skalds, in the great Hall of the Mercenaries at Miklegarth, as Byzantium was known among the Norse, when the feasting was over and the drinking horns were raised.

Iceland the sagas were becoming old and loved and told in Europe, by the skalds, the troubadours, and minnesingers.

And minstrels and skalds, in procession long, With hero-song To the sons of King Bele proceeded.

Egil was the greatest of the Icelandic skalds, and there was another man around the same time called Eyvind the Plagiarist.