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Sigvatr Þórðarson or
Sighvatr Þórðarson or
Sigvat the
Skald (995–1045) was an
Icelandic skald. He was a
court poet to King Olaf II of Norway, as well as...
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avenge their leader if he was killed.
Sigvatr Þórðarson (also
known as
Sigvat the Skald), a
court poet to two
kings of Norway, Olaf II of
Norway (saint...
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Kolstad (in Norwegian)
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- land,
making the same
progress as the king made with his ships. So says
Sigvat: -- "The
third fight was at Herdaler,
where The men of
Finland met in war...
- Þórðarson c. 1019. It is
written in the
meter dróttkvætt (‘courtly spoken’).
Sigvat was a
court poet and
trusted advisor of King Olaf
Haraldson of Norway. He...
- Anglia,
burning Thetford and Cambridge. In his Víkingarvísur, the poet
Sigvat records the
victory of
Saint Olaf,
fighting alongside Thorkell the Tall...
- Fjädrundaland with his two sons
Agnar and Alf, King
Sporsnjall of
Nerike and King
Sigvat of
Attundaland came, but not King
Granmar of Södermanland. The
kings filled...
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struggle against the
giant serpent in
order to win Thora). The
Knutsdrapa of
Sigvat Thordarson (c. 1038)
mentions the
death of Ælla at the
hands of Ivar in...
- However, the
Geatish jarl
Ragnvald Ulfsson,
colluding with Olaf II's
skald Sigvat Thordarson,
managed to
avert the
impending war. Olof's
other daughter Astrid...
- the Swedish-Norwegian side in the war. A
contemporary scaldic verse by
Sigvat Thordarson partly conforms with
Snorri by
stating that Cnut beat back or...
