Þorkell Skallason
Þorkell Skallason is a Scalde Icelandic of the 11th century.
He is the author of the Valþjófsflokkr (“ Flokkr of Valþjófr”), composed in the honor of the Jarl Valþjófr, that the royal sagas present like one of the brothers of the king of England Harold Godwinson. Two stanzas of this poem were preserved in the royal sagas ( Heimskringla , Fagrskinna , Hulda-Hrokkinskinna ). One celebrates how, at the evening of the battle of Hastings, Valþjófr made burn in a wood a detachment of the army of Guillaume of Normandy. The other evokes the execution of the jarl on the order of Guillaume.
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the '' Valþjófsflokkr '' as old man norrois.
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