The Song Weigher by Egill Skallagrímsson membership  An Duanaire 1600-1900 /

 An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981)

📚Eve Esfandiari-Denney

Yang Lian’s first ever preface to his own work

Miraculously

The Song Weigher by Egill Skallagrímsson membership  An Duanaire 1600-1900 /Translated and introduced by Ian Crockatt with a Preface by Professor Roberta Frank Egill Skallagrmsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth to thirteenth century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's saga details his life story as well as those of his immediate predecessors, from whom he inherited his massive build, his