skáldaspillir
nafnorðkarlkynskálda-spillir
‘skald-spoiler,’ the nickname of the poet Eyvind; the name was, we believe, a bye-word, a ‘poetaster,’ ‘plagiarist;’ we believe that this nickname was given to this poet because two of his chief poems were modelled after other works of contemporary poets, the Háleygja-tal after the Ynglinga-tal, and the Hákonar-mál after the Eiríks-mál; (as to the latter poem this is even expressly stated in 22); the word would thus be the same as íll-skælda, a word applied to a poet for having borrowed the refrain of his poem, iii. 65.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Fagrsk.Fagrskinna. (K. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)