1. relating to or characteristic of the ancient Scandinavian court poets called skalds or their complex, alliterative verse
Usage: literary; historical

Examples

• The scaldic poetry of medieval Iceland featured intricate wordplay and mythological references.
• Scholars study scaldic verse to understand Viking culture and history.
• The scaldic tradition preserved many Norse legends through oral poetry.
• His translation captured the complex metaphors typical of scaldic literature.
• Scaldic poems often praised kings and warriors in elaborate verse forms.