Which was the sort of issue that led me to 'skald'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaic terminology in historical fiction] Reference

A Skabbed Horse is good enough for a skald Squire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference

G.G Kay uses a skald variant in"The Last Light of the Sun.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Riddles, part 2 – word puzzles] Reference

"I am no skald, my lord," she said, while hope rose within her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

A gangling warrior princess on the surface is at heart a skald.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: A Winter's Read] Reference

Another skald did, lifetimes afterward, and put it in his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

"I've put my hand to sundry kinds of work, but mainly I am a skald.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

At the same time sing some stave to please Hrut, for I know thou art a skald.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

As well as being the foremost of warriors, Starkadh had some gift as a skald.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

In the end I settled on ‘skald’, which is the Norse equivalent of ‘scop’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

He was a man of proud spirit, and a good skald, and well trained in most feats of strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

According to the family skald back home, his singing was good ... for frightening seagulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Of The Lion]

"I the chieftain, later the king; you my skald and redesman - But that's not what you said!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

Icelandic skald had to know his nation's mythology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

Some men e'en tell this skald that wounded is the King.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)] Reference

Marcus is the skald who is making a poem about the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference

"Hear my song of King Halfdan!" for this man was a skald.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viking Tales] Reference

The skald at table seated, his waiting harp brought forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance] Reference

En skald från Morvens kullar 24 då prövar harpans gång.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritiofs Saga] Reference

Not a half-skald like my brother Thorstan, nor a pranking pie like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America] Reference

Yet was Thorkel a doughty man, and wealthy of goods, and a good skald.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875] Reference

This Audun was the skald who sang at the drinking of King Halfdan's funeral ale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viking Tales] Reference

Thereof spake Halfrod the Troublous-skald in the lay he made about Olaf the King.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)] Reference

But in his absence, the clan's evil skald (storyteller), Jorgen, plots a takeover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News] Reference

As the skald stepped down from his high position, some rich man would rush up to him and say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viking Tales] Reference

When the skald was tired, some other man would come up from the crowd and sing or tell a story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viking Tales] Reference

So the skald took down his great harp from the wall behind him and went and stood before Harald.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viking Tales] Reference

A skald from Morven's hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance] Reference

Came many a skald to sing my fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Feast at Solhoug] Reference

The brave young skald should gaily go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II] Reference

Where the skald scarce held his shield.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

"Stay, I too am a skald; I will tell you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Norsemen in the West] Reference

As since the skald has chanted in Ha'vama'l.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance] Reference

"Karlsefin, you are but a sorry skald after all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Norsemen in the West] Reference