Egil Skallagrimsson 17c manuscript.
''Arinbjarnarkviða'' is a
skaldic poem
A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: , later ; , meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry, the other being Eddic poetry, which is anonymous. Skaldic poems were traditionally ...
by
Egill Skalla-Grímsson
Egil or Egill is a masculine given name derived from Old Norse. It may refer to:
Characters
*Egil (Hymiskvida), farmer in the poem ''Hymiskvida''
*Egil, brother of Volund, hero of Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga
*Egil One-Hand, hero from the ...
in praise of his friend Arinbjörn. The poem is preserved in
Möðruvallabók
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Möðruvallabók () or AM 132 fol is an Icelandic manuscript from the mid-14th century, inscribed on vellum. It contains the following Icelandic sagas in this order:
*''Njáls saga''
*''Egils saga''
*''Finnboga saga ramma''
*''Bandamanna ...
but not in other manuscripts of ''
Egils saga
''Egill's Saga'' or ''Egil's saga'' ( non, Egils saga ; ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald. The saga spans the years ...
''. Some lines are lost while others may be corrupted. The metre is ''
kviðuháttr''.
References
ArinbjarnarkviðaOld Norse text from heimskringla.no
An English translation
Skaldic poems
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