Hello folks!
I've been keeping a low profile recently and now I
have a query. I am doing a study of what the word "víkingr"
meant in Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia to see if I can trace any change in
meaning over time. I have looked at examples in runic inscriptions, the
kings sagas and sagas of the Icelanders. I am struggling somewhat with the
examples in skaldic poetry. I have one example from a 9th century poet,
eight from 10th century poets, eight from 11th century poets and five from 12th
century poets.
I ran this by Haukur who suggested there might be
members of this group who would be able to help me with translating these.
It is no more than a few lines from each skald. If anyone can help me,
perhaps it would be easiest to contact me direct and I will email you copies of
the relevant verses.
ps. If anyone is interested to hear the results of
my findings, I'd be happy to post them to the group :-)
Cheers,
Sarah Bowen