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Höfuðlausn or the "Head's Ransom" is a skaldic poem attributed to Egill Skalla-Grímsson in praise of king Eirik Bloodaxe in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

) When Glúmr returns, he speaks the first of several skaldic verses about the injustice, beats cattle belonging to Þorkell and Sigmund that are loose on his and his mother's land, and laughs uncontrollably, which we are told he was in the habit of doing when the killing mood came on him.

Lilja ("the lily", in medieval Christian imagery symbolizing purity and thus also the Virgin Mary), is generally attributed to Eysteinn and is the best known and possibly the best of the medieval Icelandic poems that adapted the complex structure and diction of skaldic poetry to Christian subjects.

Eysteinn avoided both complicated kennings and loan-words as far he could, modifying the skaldic tradition on classical models based on the Christian ideal of claritas as enunciated by St.

A portion of two skaldic poems by him which are preserved are Hrafnsmál and Glymdrápa.

Hollander, Lee Milton (1980) Old Norse Poems: The Most Important Nonskaldic Verse Not Included in the Poetic Edda (originally printed by Columbia University Press.

Scottish inventions Háleygjatal is a skaldic poem by Eyvindr Skáldaspillir written towards the end of the 10th century to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equals of the Hárfagri dynasty.