skald

Thorvald and Vetrlidi the skald made lampoons about Thangbrand, but he slew them both.

The King said, Thou art a troublesome skald, but my man shalt thou be all the same.

They mixed honey with the blood, and thus was produced such mead that whoever drinks from it becomes a skald and sage.

But his bard-songs are like the improvisations of a savage skald, or a forest Druid: immense the thought!

For rumor said that a great Skald had come from the northern lands to compete with the Irish bard.