Перевод: skald

Horace took a long view of excellence; a very rough idea of his aesthetic commitment to the tradition of Greek letters, and some understanding of the initially cool (or possibly baffled) public reception of his Greek-inspired Odes, might be gained if we were to try to imagine one of our own Augustans studiously engaged, while everyone else relied on the staple measure of the heroic couplet, in the production of poems imitating the intricate court metres of the Nordic skald, such as the Drottkvaett, or the Dunhenda.
King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country, some of whom were possibly poets, while thelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug, and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf, with its story of pagan Scandinavia, was written.
The skald Thorleif Rauthfeldarson has him bloodying swords in England with God's help, and he was eventually buried, perhaps first in York Minster, but later in a church at Roskilde, according to the Encomiast in a tomb which he had prepared himself.
The skald Sighvat's poem Austrfararvsur (Eastern Travel Verses) describes a journey to Sweden by its author on behalf of Olaf of Norway, and refers several times to a chieftain named Ragnvald, who appears once with the wise Ulf.

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