skaldship

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From skald +‎ -ship.

Noun

skaldship (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The skill of writing Nordic poetry of the Viking Age.
    • 1983, Richard J. Schrader, God's Handiwork: Images of Women in Early Germanic Literature:
      In the first centuries of their history, the West and North of Iceland were culturally superior to the other areas; more families that practiced skaldship, the art of poetry, had chosen to settle there.
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