- Þórbjǫrn
hornklofi (Modern Norwegian: Torbjørn Hornklove; note that
hornklofi is a nickname, not a surname) was a 9th-century
Norwegian skald and one of...
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biography is uncertain. A
couple of
praise poems by his
court poet Þorbjörn
Hornklofi survive in fragments, but the
extant accounts of his life come from sagas...
- was
composed by
another of
Harald Fairhair's court-poets
named Þórbjǫrn
Hornklofi. Þjóðólfr
composed Ynglingatal for
Ragnvald Heidumhære, a
chieftain from...
-
accepted as
being written by the 9th-century
Norwegian skald Þorbjörn
Hornklofi. Hrafnsmál
largely consists of a
conversation between an
unnamed valkyrie...
- Haraldskvæthi or Hrafnsmól (Lay of Harold), a
ballad written by Þorbjörn
Hornklofi, the
court poet of King
Harald Fairhair. The
ballad is very simple, dramatic...
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Examples include: Glymdrápa ‒ the
deeds of King
Harald Fairhair, by Þorbjörn
Hornklofi,
partially preserved Vellekla ‒ the
deeds of Jarl Hákon Sigurðarson, by...
- has been
suggested that the poem
might have been
composed by Þorbjörn
Hornklofi. It is
preserved in the
Codex Regius and the same
story is
related in...
- N
Harald Fairhair lord of the
northmen dróttin Norðmanna ON Þorbjörn
Hornklofi, Hrafnsmál
honour mind's
worth weorðmyndum OE
Beowulf hook bait-gallows...
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skalds that have used the name of
valkyries in said
manner (Þorbjörn
Hornklofi uses "Skögul's din" for "battlefield",
Bersi Skáldtorfuson uses "Gunnr's...
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served as the Poet
Laureate of Rotterdam.
During the 9th century, Þorbjǫrn
hornklofi was
appointed as a
court poet (skald) of King
Harald Fairhair. In the...
