skaldic
We now know...the truly intricate magnificence of the celebratory skaldic poetry that was composed and handed down from generation to generation....
Skaldic poetry usually discussed heroes and their doings and made much use of kennings, multiword substitutions for nouns (a famous example is "corpse-sea," meaning "blood"). Not much is known about the earliest skalds (even the etymology of the word is unclear). The English word "scold" derives from skald.
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