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skalds

skalds is the plural of skald.

Meaning of skald

Noun

skald (plural skalds)

  1. (historical) 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.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28

Questions about skalds

What is skalds the plural of?
Skalds is the plural of skald.

Words near skalds in the dictionary

  1. Skalat
  2. skalawag
  3. skalawags
  4. skald
  5. skaldic
  6. skalds
  7. skaldship
  8. skale
  9. skales
  10. Skalice
  11. Skalicky

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