skaldship

English

Alternative forms

• scaldship

Etymology

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.