description
The nickname
litli ‘the Short’ is given in
Skáldatal (
SnE 1848-87,
III, 275), where Atli (Atli) is identified as a skald of King Óláfr kyrri ‘the Quiet’ Haraldsson (r. 1067-93; see
SkP II, lxxxviii-lxxxix); hence the assumption that the present
helmingr is about Óláfr. Nothing further is known of Atli or his poetry.