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He imperiled his life again to take away from the Giants the skaldic mead, which made anyone who tasted it a poet.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

In the Eddas and in the skaldic lays he has in all nearly two hundred names.

From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Anderson, Rasmus Björn

Such abrupt brevity of expression, not uncommon among Norwegian peasants, was no doubt natural to Björnson, but was confirmed by the influence of the Old Norse sagas and skaldic poetry.

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell

Or, perhaps, the bard received inspiration by drinking magic water from the fountain called Hippocrene, or the skaldic mead which dripped from the moon.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

Fenriswolf's gag is a skaldic expression for a sword.—L.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson