Skáldatal
Skáldatal (Catalogue of Poets) is a short prose work in Old Norse. It was preserved in two manuscripts: DG 11, or Codex Uppsaliensis, which is one of the four main manuscripts of the Prose Edda (first quarter of the 14th century), and Kringla that was lost in the fire of Copenhagen in1728. Several copies of it exit. The best known is in. AM 761 a 4to (about 1700), which also contains Skaldic poems. It lists the court poets of Scandinavian rulers from legendary times up to the late 13th century with short notes on some.
The work generally agrees with extant knowledge on court poets from other sources. Though, in some cases, more poets are known for a certain ruler than are listed in Skáldatal. In other cases, poets listed there are otherwise unknown.
Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir is one of three women listed as a poet in Skáldatal. Another is Vilborg under King Olaf III of Norway (d. 1069), the third is Áslaug wife of King Ragnar.
See also
External links
- edition of Guðni Jónsson
- Page at the Skaldic Project