Eilífr kúlnasveinn

Eilífr kúlnasveinn is an Icelandic skald who lived in the 12th or 13th century.[1]

Nothing is known of his life, but he may have been a clergyman.[2]

Five fragments of his work have come down to us. One stanza is preserved in the Fourth Grammatical Treatise. Three half-stanzas and a couplet are quoted in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál (52) and are generally considered to belong to a poem addressed to Christ (Kristsdrápa), for they appear among the kennings for Christ.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Simek, Rudolf. Hermann Pálsson. Lexikon der altnordischen Literatur: die mittelalterliche Literatur Norwegens und Islands. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2007. ISBN 978-3-520-49002-5.
  2. ↑ Vries, Jan de. Altnordische Literaturgeschichte. Berlin : de Gruyter, 1999. Band II, p. 61. ISBN 3-11-016330-6.

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