Egil Skallagrimsson 17c manuscript.
''Arinbjarnarkviða'' is a
skaldic poem
A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: ; , meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry. Skaldic poems were traditionally compo ...
by
Egill Skalla-Grímsson in praise of his friend Arinbjörn. The poem is preserved in
Möðruvallabók but not in other manuscripts of ''
Egils saga''. 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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