Þorbjörn hornklofi

Þorbjörn hornklofi was a Norwegian skald who probably lived in the second half of the ninth century, perhaps until the beginning of the tenth; his parents are not known. The Skáldatal lists him among the poets of King Harald Fairhair, and the Fagrskinna says he was attached to the king's retinue from his youth, accounts regarded as unreliable. The meaning of his nickname remains obscure, perhaps a poetic term for the raven. His verses have survived only in extracts in royal sagas of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and some have thought they recognised his hand in a heroic poem of the Edda.

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• PoetryThe Lay of HaroldHaraldskvæðiÞorbjörn hornklofi · 900LiteraturePublic domain