Shield poem

A shield poem or shield poem is a field of material from the pictorial poem genre of Old Norse literature . In skaldic poems ( price song ), pictorial representations on the protective weapon of the shield of the skald are taken up and freely interpreted.

Examples

• House length
• Ragnarsdrápa

literature

• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .