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Skúladrápa — Ólsv SkúldrIII

Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson

R. D. Fulk 2017, ‘ Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Skúladrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 313. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1331> (accessed 20 April 2024)

 

This fragment, Skúladrápa ‘Drápa about Skúli’ (Ólsv Skúldr), is preserved only in the version of TGT contained in A, where it is explicitly attributed to Óláfr Leggsson. Since it eulogises a man named Skúli, it is reasonably assumed to derive from a longer composition about Skúli jarl Bárðarson (about whom see Note to [All] below), even though Óláfr is not mentioned in Skáldatal as a poet who eulogised Skúli. This posited longer composition is more likely to be a drápa than a lausavísa, given the encomiastic nature of the couplet, although the title of the fragment is modern rather than medieval.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. (forthcoming), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 20 April 2024)
  3. Not published: do not cite ()
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