Oddr kíkinaskáld — OkíkII
skaldsVol. 2, 31-4 — — ed. Kari Ellen Gade
Poetry
Biography
Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘(Biography of) Oddr kíkinaskáld’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 31-4.
Very little is known about
Oddr kíkinaskáld (Okík).
Skáldatal lists him among the poets of Magnús Óláfsson and Haraldr Sigurðarson (
SnE 1848-87,
III, 254, 262, 274-5), and he appears to have been in Norway at the time of Magnús’s death (in 1047). The meaning of his nickname is debated (composing about a person with the name or nickname Kíkini or Kikini: so
SnE 1848-87,
III, 576,
Finnur Jónsson 1907, 246; composing about people from a Norw. farmstead Kíkin: so
ÍF 28, 63 n. 1). The quantity of the first <i> in the nickname cannot be established.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1907. ‘Tilnavne i den islandske oldlitteratur’. ÅNOH, 161-381.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
other information
Oddr kíkinaskáld (Okík)
11th century
Skj AI, 354-5; BI, 327-8
volume 2
main editor: Kari Ellen Gade