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Three helmingar and one couplet are attributed to an Eilífr kúlnasveinn (Ekúl) in mss R, Tˣ, W, U and A of Skm (SnE). No other poetry by this skald is known, aside from a stanza in FoGT that is said there to be by an Eilífr, and is likely to be by this same poet. Nothing is known of Eilífr’s life, but he is usually assumed to have been an Icelander living at some time in the twelfth century. His nickname kúlnasveinn may mean ‘Fellow with lumps’ (cf. Lind 1920-1, col. 225).

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