Eilífr Goðrúnarson (
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...
: ;
Modern Icelandic: ) was a late 10th-century
skald, considered to be the author of the poem ''
Þórsdrápa''. He is also credited with ''Hákonar drápa jarls'' and a fragment remains of a poem with Christian allusions which is also believed to be his work. He was a court poet of
Hákon the Powerful.
External links
Jörmungrund: Þórsdrápa(Old Norse text with English translation and thorough structural and linguistic analysis.)
Eilífr's entryin th
Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Agesdatabase
10th-century Icelandic poets
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