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The term skald (or skáld) meaning ‘poet’, is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages. Skaldic poetry forms one of two main groupings of Old Norse poetry, the other being the anonymous Eddic poetry. The most prevalent metre of skaldic poetry is dróttkvætt. The subject is usually historical and encomiastic, detailing the deeds of the skald's patron. There is no evidence that the skalds employed musical instruments, though some speculate they may have accompanied their verses with the harp or lyre. The technical demands of the skaldic form were equal to the complicated verse forms mastered by the Welsh bards and Gaelic (in both Scotland and Ireland) ollaves, and like those poets, much of skaldic verse consisted of panegyrics to kings and aristocrats, or memorials and testimonials to their battles. ==Etymology== The word ''skald'' is perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic '' *skalliz'' "sound, voice, shout" (OHG ''skal'' "sound"). OHG has ''skalsang'' "song of praise, psalm". ''skellan'' means "ring, clang, resound". The OHG variant stem ''skeltan'' etymologically identical to the ''skald-'' stem (Proto-Germanic '' *skeldan'') means "to scold, blame, accuse, insult". The person doing the insulting is a ''skelto'' or ''skeltāri''. This bears striking similarities to the Dutch verb "schelden" and the southern German "schelten", which mean "shouting abuse" or "calling names." The West Germanic counterpart of the skald is the scop. Not unlike the ''scop'', which is related to Modern English ''scoff'', the name ''skald'' is continued in English ''scold'', reflecting the central position of mocking taunts in Germanic poetry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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