Eysteinn Valdason

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Eysteinn.

Eysteinn Valdason was a 10th-century Icelandic skald. Three half-stanzas from a poem about Thor are all that survive of his work. Preserved in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál (4) only, they deal with Thor's fishing expedition with the giant Hymir, where the god attempts to kill Jörmungandr.

External links

Eysteinn's poetry in Old Norse with an English translation and notes

Pagan (or once-pagan) Skalds

Skalds	Auðunn illskælda Bragi Boddason (Ragnarsdrápa) Egill Skalla-Grímsson (Arinbjarnarkviða, Höfuðlausn , Sonatorrek) Eilífr Guðrúnarson (Þórsdrápa) Einarr skálaglamm Erpr lútandi Eyjólfr dáðaskáld Eysteinn Valdason Eyvindr skáldaspillir (Hákonarmál, Háleygjatal) Gamli gnævaðarskáld Glúmr Geirason Gunnlaugr ormstunga Guthormr sindri (Hákonardrápa) Hallar-Steinn Halldórr ókristni Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Hrafn Önundarson Jórunn skáldmær Kormákr Ögmundarson Skafti Þóroddsson Skúli Þórsteinsson Steinn Herdísarson Steinunn Refsdóttir Þjóðólfr of Hvinir (Haustlöng, Ynglingatal) Tindr Hallkelsson Úlfr Sebbason Úlfr Uggason (Húsdrápa) Vetrliði Sumarliðason Vigfúss Víga-Glúmsson

See also	Alliterative verse Bragi Heiti Kenning (List of kennings) Málaháttr Mead of poetry Odin Old Norse poetry Skaldic poetry

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